Probiotics for children are completely useless.

A group of scientists from Israel conducted a study and officially confirmed what many already guessed - probiotics are completely useless for children and adults..

And no matter how many manufacturers of fermented milk products and biological additives claim that the intestine needs to be populated with live microflora, these statements have nothing to do with reality.

The results of the study, it should be noted, surprised even the researchers themselves. They expected that probiotics will show at least a weak and short-term effect, but even it was not possible to fix it.

Microbiologists and chemists at their Weizmann Institute of Medicine made up a cocktail of probiotics by introducing 11 popular bacteriaamong which were all familiar lactobacilli and bifidobacteria.

25 volunteers, among whom were 10 children, consumed the drink for 30 days.

At the end of this period, researchers took samples from different parts of the stomach, as well as from the small and large intestines.

The task was to find at least one colony formed by beneficial bacteria. But, alas, the scientists did not succeed in establishing a single colony of bacteria in any of the voluntary participants in the experiment.

The activity of the intestines, metabolism remained at the original level, nothing has changed in them.

In 99% of cases, the beneficial bacteria that enter the body with probiotics immediately leave it naturally through the intestines. And only in 1% of cases the bacteria linger, but not for long, without any effect on the digestive tract and metabolism.

The results of the study, Israeli experts have published in the journal Cell, which probably angered the manufacturers of advertised children's products with probiotics and food additives of this group.

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