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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (44)	10/13/2004 1:14:49 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 577

Probiotics as modulators of the gut flora L. J. Fooks and G. R. Gibson* Food Microbial Sciences Unit, School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, UK One possible mechanism for the action of probiotics is their ability to adhere to the intestinal mucosa (Jacobsen et al. 1999). In this way, they may resist peristalsis which would otherwise flush them from the gut. As well as occupying a niche at the expense of potentially harmful organisms, they may specifically block the adherence of enteropathogens. "gut flora" gives 178,000 hits with google adding "probiotic prebiotic" brings it down to only 2800 references. I recently went to a health food store. There were a lot of dietary supplements available, but not a lot of good food for sale--at least not that looked very tasty. Niche products for special diets, and lots of weird extracts and such. The two things I went to buy, they did not sell (GBF and FloraQ) I may have already mentioned this--but I watched a little of the PBS transcontinental railroad program. The Chinese workers diet versus the Irish was pointed out (Irish ate boiled meat and beans, drank ditch water...Chinese drank tea, ate pretty well...). Off topic--the program said that Chinese workers were lowered in baskets at Cape Horn, to set up for blasting. I found an article on the web that suggested this may not be true--and that perhaps surveyors or the teams that marked out where the work was to be done may have been lowered down, but most certainly the main labor force was not. Just pointing out that to know anything, you really have to study it. Teevee and even google surfing is really just entertainment and diversion.