Norwegian research has found limited value in terms of protein or other functional components for pigs and poultry from products derived from two types of seaweed.
Gut Health Tips That Keep You Healthy
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03 Jun 2021, 02:24 GMT+10
Your gut determines your health status. Gut health is crucial because over 50% of the immune system lies in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract running from mouth to anus. Experts have realized that gut or digestive health is associated with many diseases. This means the best way to stay healthy is to keep your gut clean and healthy, with a perfect balance of good and bad bacteria.
Here are the steps you can take to keep your gut healthy:
Eat Healthy diet
A healthy diet will not only provide you with the vitamins and minerals your body needs but will also keep your GI tract running smoothly. Consume mostly clean, unprocessed, and fresh foods. Processed foods get easily broken down into sugar, which is not good for gut health.
Bacteriophages, probiotics, postbiotics and vaccines offer potential as alternatives to antibiotics to control E. coli associated challenges in pigs. But such additives need additional well-designed experiments and field-based work, finds a new review.
“Further investigation into these additives is required, and upon a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at play, this strategy may potentially lead to a reduction of pathogen adhesion and aid in pathogen control upon colonization,” according to the animal scientists participating in this review, which was published in
Veterinary Microbiology.
The reviewers, among them, Dr John Pluske, from the faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Melbourne, also determined that more studies are needed to optimize the use of organic acids in weaner diets, while rations containing low levels of crude protein (CP) can have benefits in terms of reduced diarrhea but it is not alway