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Prebiotics

PREBIOTICS are a special form of dietary fiber that acts as a fertilizer for the good bacteria in your gut.
PREBIOTICS are not affected by heat, cold, acid or time.
PREBIOTICS can double the growth of good bacteria every 20 minutes.
PREBIOTICS provide a wide range of health benefits to the otherwise healthy person. Most of these have been medically proven.
PREBIOTICS nourish the good bacteria that everyone already has in their gut.
PREBIOTICS may be helpful for several chronic digestive disorders or inflammatory bowel disease.

PROBIOTICS are live bacteria in yogurt, dairy products and pills. There are hundreds of types of probiotics.
PROBIOTICS must be kept alive. They may be killed by heat, stomach acid or simply die with time.
PROBIOTICS require billions of bacteria to populate the gut and require the nutrition from PREBIOTICS to survive.
PROBIOTICS are not as clearly linked to health benefits as PREBIOTICS in healthy individuals.
PROBIOTICS must compete with the over 1000 bacteria species already in the gut.
PROBIOTIC species have been shown to be helpful for childhood diarrhea, irritable bowel disease (IBS) and for recurrence of certain bowel infections such as C. difficile.