Probiotics For Dummies

Learn to:

• Bolster your immune system against disease
• Alleviate allergies and asthma
• Keep a proper bacterial balance
• Improve the health of your digestive tract

Discover the pros of probiotics

Also known as "friendly" or "good" bacteria, probiotics are fast becoming an important component of a successful health program. This hands-on, friendly guide gives you everything you need to make informed decisions about adding probiotics to your daily diet.

• Put the "pro" in probiotics — find out the scientific foundations for probiotics' role in combating disease and promoting health
• Microbes 101 — get the scoop on how your digestive system works and the ways friendly and unfriendly microbes affect your body
• Here's to your health — discover how probiotics may fight a wide array of ailments and diseases, such as heart disease and cancer>
• Start cookin' — try two dozen delicious, probiotic-rich entree, snack, and dessert recipes

Open the book and find:

• How prebiotics and probiotics work together
• The scoop on digestive health
• Advice on balancing probiotics and nutrition
• More than 20 recipes and a plan for infusing probiotics into your diet
• Common misperceptions about probiotics
• The role of probiotics in allergies, infections, gastrointestinal disorders, women's health and more

Probiotics are beneficial, live microorganisms (in most cases, bacteria) that are similar to those found naturally in the human intestine. Also known as "friendly" or "good" bacteria, probiotics are the cornerstone of any successful health program because they restore a healthy balance between friendly and bad bacteria in the intestinal tract, a balance that is critical for the health of the entire body. Probiotics are associated with treating everything from IBS to certain forms of cancer, allergies, eczema, and even the effects of aging.

Probiotics For Dummies reveals how taking the right probiotics—in the form of food and supplements— as part of a total health program benefits one's overall health, as well as improving specific conditions. This hands-on, essential guide features 20 probiotic recipes and gives you a step-by-step plan for infusing probiotics into your diet to improve the health of the GI tract, alleviate allergies and asthma, restore reproductive and urinary tracts, bolster the immune system against disease, enhance weight loss, and more.

• Advice on how to ingest the right probiotics
• 20 probiotic recipes from breakfast to dessert
• Information on naturally occurring probiotic compounds as well as the effectiveness of supplements

Probiotics For Dummies gives you everything you need to make informed decisions about adding probiotics to your daily diet.