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   Research needed to combat modern-day health concerns: Experts    
      
   By Mariecar Jara-Puyod        November 04, 2014            
      
      
      
   Dubai: More studies that would hopefully result in more research and   
   development of medicines or health products must be undertaken to address the   
   seemingly endless discovery and increase of modern diseases.    
      
   Visiting surgeon-turned-scientist Prof Bengt Jeppson told The Gulf Today there   
   is more to be done in the scientific world in order that health problems   
   brought about by global booming population and climate change among other   
   factors would be resolved.    
      
   From the sidelines of the "Roundtable Media Discussion on Probiotics" on   
   Monday, he was asked of his opinion on the observation that even as great   
   advancements in science and technology have been achieved through the years,   
   the world is still burdened    
   with health concerns.    
      
   Swedish Jeppson said the development of new diseases far outpaces the progress   
   in science and technology and so medical and science experts must be involved   
   in more research and development.    
      
   The Lund University-Malmo University Hospital-Department of Surgery assistant   
   dean is in Dubai until Wednesday to promote a probiotics health supplement his   
   team had developed in 1994.    
      
   The pill has been proven to be beneficial through continuing global clinical   
   studies.    
      
   The former surgeon's interest in probiotics as a preventive treatment was so   
   since he had observed that majority of his patients, particularly those   
   suffering from Irritable Bowl Syndrome (IBS), need not undergo surgery if   
   their gut flora were protected    
   from harmful bacteria.    
      
   IBS is the chronic gastro-intestinal disorder characterised by stomach pain,   
   discomfort, bloating and alteration of bowel movement.    
      
   Saying that people "have more bacterial cells than human cells in their   
   bodies," Jeppson added that millions or even more of the former are lodged in   
   the gut flora.    
      
   Gut flora is the largest reservoir of microbes in the human body.    
      
   He told this reporter: "I call the stomach the big black box where bacteria   
   will simulate each other in the gut because they are a live culture." He   
   claimed probiotics, two of which are lacto bacilli and bifide bacteria   
   (present in breast milk), are    
   needed to fight the other living microbes in the gut flora.    
      
   Jeppson said people, "from the time of Homo Rectus even before the Homo   
   Sapiens" were oriented to eating live bacteria."    
      
   On the other hand, history has shown that probiotics, sourced from fermented   
   foods such as sauerkraut, lassi, raw yoghurt, buttermilk and vegetable pickles   
   which helped in maintaining intestinal health.    
      
   However, due to lifestyle changes, modernity, and alterations in diet and   
   nutrition, inflammatory illnesses like cardiovascular diseases and diabetes,   
   among others, arose.    
      
   Jeppson said: "Many inflammatory diseases have links to the changes in the gut   
   flora. We need to take probiotics every day."      
      
   Aside from maintaining a healthy balance in the gut flora, the other major   
   benefits of including high quality probiotics in the daily diet and nutrition   
   are:    
      
   * Aid in digesting food, particularly the hard-to-digest food and those, which   
   some people are more sensitive to.    
      
   * Enhance the Vitamin B synthesis and improve calcium absorption.    
      
   * Promote vaginal health in women.    
      
      
   * Support the immune system.    
      
      
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