Bifidobacterium

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Follow-up testing also showed that Seeds Probiotic promoted 400% population growth of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus in the gut.

Both very beneficial bacteria, both anti-inflammatory, both good for immune health, both good for production of serotonin.

We know those bacteria are really good.

only 8% of babies in the US have the most important species, which is called Bifidobacterium infantis.

And by age two, these children that had either low amounts or actually no Bifidobacterium, which represented about 76% of babies in the US, 76, three out of four babies, because they had low levels of these bacteria or none, they were three to four times more at risk of developing what we call atopic disease conditions.

That's eczema, food allergies, and asthma.

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And it's really important in terms of immune development and actually brain development.

The microbiome responds to special prebiotics in breast milk called human milk oligosaccharides.

And when they eat these important prebiotics, Bifidobacterium, which are a key component of the gut microbiome in babies, put out signals that tell the immune system to train properly so they can go down that normal path and hopefully help them prevent future chronic diseases.

And they also help produce a lot of acid that helps suppress any of the bad bacteria essentially in their gut.

Second ingredient, live cultures.

These are the beneficial bacteria that ferment the milk, and they're usually listed by their scientific names, such as Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Streptococcus thermophilus, or Bifidobacterium.

That's it for true, plain, healthy, unadulterated yogurt.

If you see any of the following ingredients on the label, the manufacturer has used industrial shortcuts to fake a thick texture or to mark a lack of quality.

Yeah, that's a great observation, and I absolutely see that in practice as well.

GLP-1 is glucagon-like peptide, and it is actually secreted from the gut microbiome in the presence of specific bacteria, including Ackermansia and Bifidobacterium.

under the conditions of colonic distension.

So when we feed our colon properly and we have adequate fiber, especially soluble and insoluble fiber, that combination there, it signals our intestinal cells to expand and distend.

important? So not all bacteria are created equal, but there is an algorithm essentially to this bacteria.

If you think of them as a symphony, you need all of the instruments playing, but some of them are contributing greater than maybe the tambourine in the background.

So the keystone bacteria are bacteria such as Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Fecal bacteria and protein C.I. And I would say another one that we find is kind of punches over its weight is acromantia muciniphila.

It's not as abundant as the others, but it's really integral to the mucosal barrier.

If you are missing bifidobacterium, you have less bifidobacterium in your gut.

and you have more, well, I call it Firmicutes, Firmicutes, but I like to call it Firmicutes.

But if you have more Firmicutes bacteria than Bifidobacterium, your metabolism is going to slow down.

So stop and think about this for a while.

Have you heard of people who have had fecal transplants where they take a skinny person and they take the fecal matter and they transplant it into an obese person and the obese person loses weight? If you haven't heard of that, it's actually well researched.

And again, nobody knew what I was talking about for almost 20 years.

And that's the Bifidobacteria infantis.

And the reason it's called infantis, it's because it should be the healthy bacteria that a healthy mother passes on to the newborn as the newborn passes the birth canal.

Unfortunately for us in North America, this process stopped years ago, decades ago.

I don't care if they're healthy, but the data shows that they need this bacterium.

And then the infant needs to take this bacterium.

And we have special instructions how to give this to the infant to make sure that the infant is inhabited by this essential life-giving bacteria called Bifidobacteria infantis.

And by the way, since most people, even as they age in North America, don't have this bacterium, I've even made it available for all people of all ages to take because, first of all, it's harmless at any level and you can only derive benefits from it.