Jan
26Oligosaccharides and Dietary Fibers and Treatment of Liver Disorders
Filed Under (What Does The Liver Do: Health Tips) by admin on 26-01-2009
General health tips on liver disorders wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t talk here about the importance of dietary fibers and oligosaccharides for liver health. Such liver disorders like acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, and liver cirrhosis progress with marked pathologic shifts in intestine microflora – there is a lack of obligate microorganisms and an increase of pathogen microorganisms in large intestine.
Probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics are used to enhance normal functioning of resident microflora.
The latter regulates production of toxins in intestine preventing their excessive accumulation and entry to blood flow. As a result of metabolism of probiotic microorganisms characterized by detoxicative and proteolytic features, proteolysis of endotoxins, allergens and antigens takes place in intestine. Dietary fibers, being sorbents and nutritious substance for intestine microflora, play an important role in people’s meals. Oligosaccharides (prebiotics of in vivo group) are utilized by healthy intestine microflora and increase selectively its population.
Thereby, bioactive substances are very important in treatment of liver disorders. However, one suffering from liver disorders should strictly follow his/her doctor’s advice as for the daily rate of bioactive substances to take. Let your liver be healthy!
