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Do Probiotics Help With Anxiety? What Does The Research Say?

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Anxiety disorders are a class of mental health illnesses classified under psychological disturbances characterized by the patients experiencing pervasive worry, fear, similar behavioral impairments, that meddle with their ability to make rational decisions through everyday life. They are today one of the most prevalent forms of mental illness affecting a large percentage of the adult population in India, as well as across the world, imposing a remarkable societal burden of functional disability amongst populations. Probiotics of a variety of strands have continued to generate intensive global research interest in the past few decades, gaining popularity as a new and advanced mode of treatment for physical and mental ailments. They are being produced by manufacturers for use in humans as well as animals, such as in the case with aquaculture probiotic ecosense , that helps improve the quality of life of fish, in turn helping produce fish of better quality. In fact, a recent study

Impact Of A Healthy Gut, on Heart Health

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A healthy gut indicates a healthy you. This couldn’t be truer - especially in this day and age where stomach infections and gastrointestinal diseases are becoming more and more common, despite our severe dependencies on highly purified, RO and UV treated water and well-cooked and hygienically processed foods. We all know that everyday probiotics such as probiotic Bacillus subtilis - that fight against the influenza virus - did you know that taking the right probiotics at the right time could also be great for your heart health? Biotechnology companies in India, are constantly investing in the study and development of new combinations of probiotics that could offer a good mix of health benefits not only for your gut but also for your heart. Here are three ways how probiotics could be beneficial for your heart. Probiotics reduce cholesterol: We know that most types of cholesterol are bad for your heart’s health. When there is too much cholesterol in your blood, it tends to load u

How Probiotics Effect On Animal Health

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To understand whether or not probiotics such as bacillus clausii are safe for animal health, and whether they can effectively be used as animal health products, it is important to first understand what probiotics actually are, and how they are known to help with certain bodily functions - both in humans as well as in animals. Most animals live in symbiosis - a mutually beneficial relationship - with what are called ‘good bacteria’ that reside in various parts of their digestive system. In several animals including mammals and fish, these good bacteria reside in the mouth and the gut - similar to humans. They basically feed off some of the nutrients that our bodies reject, and in turn provide us with helpful enzymes to effectively digest and absorb nutrients from the food we consume. This is a perfectly natural process that has been in our systems for most of our evolutionary history. Due to harsh environmental conditions, improper food habits, an underlying infection or its trea