Is there a relationship between intestinal health and probiotics? Why?

Authoritative data show that the significant decrease in the number of probiotics such as lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria in the intestine of the elderly is the most significant change in the intestine, which is the phenomenon of intestinal aging. Don't think that only the elderly will age the intestines. Now, 20% of young women in their twenties have entered old age.

There are many factors affecting intestinal aging, and age is only one of them. Because everyone's intestinal flora is different and will change with age, intestinal aging is a very complicated process. Eating whole grains will lead to the increase of harmful bacteria (Escherichia coli, Webster's Bacillus, Staphylococcus) and accelerate intestinal aging. This is an unavoidable problem. You can only pay attention to choosing healthy ingredients when eating.

If you often forget to eat breakfast because you are sleepy, it takes a long time to go to the toilet every time, and your skin is rough, and you often have acne and spots. That's because your intestines are aging. Under normal circumstances, people in the East, especially in China, have very healthy eating habits, mainly plant-based diet, and often eat coarse grains, vegetables and appropriate meat. However, with the introduction of animal-based diet structure in the west, more and more people eat more unhealthy foods with high fat, high protein and low dietary fiber, which accelerates intestinal aging.

Nowadays, unhealthy aesthetics make more and more young people choose to diet to lose weight. Being too thin has caused a great burden to the body. If you don't eat staple food for a long time, the Bifidobacterium in your body will become lifeless because it can't get nutrition, and the main function of Bifidobacterium is to inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria. Although Bifidobacterium can't kill harmful bacteria directly, it can make use of the characteristic that harmful bacteria can't survive in acidic environment and secrete a lot of acidic substances in the body, which indirectly makes harmful bacteria unable to survive. Therefore, the inactivation of Bifidobacterium will accelerate intestinal aging.

Another change brought about by excessive weight loss is that irregular diet, partial eclipse or overeating will all cause changes in the flora in the body. Partial eclipse will cause overnutrition or malnutrition, and overeating will disrupt the normal rhythm of digestion and absorption of food in gastrointestinal tract. After overeating, a large amount of digestive juice will be needed in a short time, which will obviously increase the burden on the affiliated digestive organs. Over time, it will weaken the intestinal function and cause intestinal aging.