date:Sep 25, 2012
A report by Rampbellie et. al in the Journal of Nutrition, Health Aging found that biscuits containing particular strains of probiotics could counteract pathobiont components which usually decrease key microbiota with age, leading to elderly people struggling to control bowel functions.
Functional foods for the elderly
Our data demonstrated that one month consumption of a probiotics-containing biscuit was effective in redressing some of the age-related dysbioses of the intestinal microbiota,