What part of the immune system these foods might exert any effect.
We have all heard about the variety of foods that claim to improve our health in some way or another. Of keen interest is to improve our immune system by consuming certain foods. A key term that has come into use is Probiotics. Yogurt, especially those that state, active live cultures, claim to boost our immune system but are these claims true? Are the advertising and marketing of these products true to their claims?
Immunity is not a single or simple process but a complex and ever changing system. In order to better understand what or if super foods exist that could potentially improve immunity, it is necessary to address what part of the immune system these foods might exert any effect. Is it possible to eat a food or foods that enhance our immunity? Are there any scholarly studies to support such claims?
Check these links:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/how-to-boost-your-immune-system
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/73/2/444s/4737576
For this forum, choose ONE of the following products (I chose Kombucha). Each of them claim they are probiotic. Do some research on it to determine if it has any scientific validity or if the probiotic key word is a marketing strategy used to get attention and boost sales.
Research and Support your post.
Choose only ONE (I chose Kombucha)
Topic 1. Activia- Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/12/dannon-agrees-drop-exaggerated-health-claims-activia-yogurt
Topic 2. Kimchi- Does kimchi Lactobacilli survive the stomach acid? http://aem.asm.org/content/71/6/3060.full
Topic 3. Kefir- Frontiers in Microbiology http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26579086
Topic 4. Kombucha- NCBI Pubmed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28430940
Compose your post to address the following questions;
-What part of immunity or our immune system might probiotics exert an effect, if any?
-Explain the proposed mechanism(s) of how probiotics work?
-Does one have to buy a special brand of the products for it to work?
-You only chose one of the topics(Kombucha), but what is the common denominator from all of them (it’s a microbe)?
