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Functional food in elderly persons

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Probiotics are defined as live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host, including the gastrointestinal tract. While this beneficial effect was originally thought to stem from improvements in the intestinal microbial balance, there is now substantial evidence that probiotics can also provide benefits by modulating immune functions. In animal models, probiotic supplementation is able to provide protection from spontaneous and chemically induced colitis by downregulating inflammatory cytokines or inducing regulatory mechanisms in a strain-specific manner. In animal models of allergen sensitization and murine models of asthma and allergic rhinitis, orally administered probiotics can strain-dependently decrease allergen-specific IgE production, in part by modulating systemic cytokine production. Certain probiotics have been shown to decrease airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation by inducing regulatory mechanisms. Promising results have been obtained with probiotics in the treatment of human inflammatory diseases of the intestine and in the prevention and treatment of atopic eczema in neonates and infants. However, the findings are too variable to allow firm conclusions as to the effectiveness of specific probiotics in these conditions. ...J Gastroenterol. 2009;44(1):26-46
A balanced nutrition is the best prerequisite for health and prevention of disease in age and against "nutritional frailty". Many elderly people, however, are unable to comply with an adequate nutrition, in particular isolated people and people in elderly homes with or without dementia. Under those conditions "functional foods" may be an important alternative, but evidence based studies, that would show a benefit, are scarce so far. In the future probiotics may show benefits in cancer prevention; since most malignant tumors are associated with age, the elderly may then profit for the most. ...Ther Umsch. 2007 Mar;64(3):141-6

Probiotics may improve alcoholics’ liver health

Probiotics may improve alcoholics’ liver health: Study ... A pilot study from Russia and the US indicates that supplements of Bifidobacterium bifidum ... A pilot study from Russia and the US indicates that supplements of Bifidobacterium bifidum ... potential therapeutic role for probiotics in the short-term treatment of alcoholic liver disease. Probiotic . This suggests that probiotic therapy played a causal role in the improvement in liver enzymes.” ...http://www.nutraingredients.com