Actimel is funny, yogurt was exported to much of Europe as a beneficial product for health (and is) and was very successful. Both that already today nobody seems to remember with that purpose was taken before. It seems that Actimel and other fermented milks the majors have tried to do the same, but we do not live in the 1920s or there is a unique company that marketed the product.

Is the medicine, the stubborn discipline not believed things unless it has a dozen studios in favour (and one against, because but there are enclosed cat). Currently by medicine know that yoghurt is beneficial, is recommended for diarrhea in people who suffer from lactose intolerance and believed that it can help the flora bacterial.

bacterial flora? isn’t that what strengthens Actimel? defenses? clarify certain things, one thing are the bacteria beneficial ” that we have in our body and another thing is the immune system. In the first case, these bacteria perform many functions, but mainly fermented food or help synthesize others, such as vitamins. Seems relatively demonstrated that yogurt helps this bacterial flora through lactic acid, which they feed.

And another very different are the defenses ” or immune system. The immune system is present almost throughout the body, and it is also in the digestive system. What is more, become a main route of entry of bacteria our agency has an effective system that fights and this is known as GALT. Actimel us was trying to sell was the following: If you take its fermented milk would be taking some beneficial bacteria (l. casei) that would help your bowel. In part the principle of the yogurt was similar, natural bacteria which included were beneficial to health. Now something has changed that with the pasteurized products, etc. but is that science does not support this hypothesis.

Is hard to believe that with introducing bacteria in our diet, these are going to survive stomach acid (very few do so if), then to the bicarbonate from the pancreas and to finish the GALT from the rest of viscera, namely the system immune. as it could survive this bacteria and not others? Danone response wasn’t: (e) s as the l. Casei bacteria are bacteria patented and designed by Danone.

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