Influence of fermented milk products, prebiotics and probiotics on microbiota composition and health

C Ceapa, H Wopereis, L Rezaïki… - Best Practice & …, 2013 - Elsevier
The gut microbiota is a highly diverse and relative stabile ecosystem increasingly
recognized for its impact on human health. The homeostasis of microbes and the host is also
referred to as eubiosis. In contrast, deviation from the normal composition, defined as
dysbiosis, is often associated with localized diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease
or colonic cancer, but also with systemic diseases like metabolic syndrome and allergic
diseases. Modulating a gut microbiota dysbiosis with nutritional concepts may contribute to …