Probiotics hold promise for management of neurodegenerative diseases, says expert

The nutrition expert and former director of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) B. Sesikeran said Friday that the new studies have shown that probiotics had an important role to play in the management of neurodegenerative diseases such as autism, Parkinson’s syndrome and senile dementia.

Delivering the opening speech on ‘microbes for good health: the paradox of healthy life’ in a ‘meeting of networks on probiotics, postbiotics and startups and fermented companies based on food’ at the Central Institute of Food Research and Training (Cftri) in the Institute (Cftri) at the Institute (Cftri) in semeikeran, said the gutteria bacteria, which had an active human function in Metabolic in humans in metabolic in human moderation in human crap in human cute, also in the Cftri, it also produces a human function. that communicate within the brain and brain to the rest of the body.

“In that sense, the intestine also communicates with food and other components that enter the intestine, and through them send signals to the brain. This can also be associated with signs such as appetite and other things that relate food.”

While modern medicine does not have a “definitive response” to neurodegenerative diseases such as autism, Parkinson’s syndrome and senile dementia, there is a great promise that probiotics and their products called postbiotics have an important route to play, Mainfay’s Hhemation, hesitated the mainfas,

Duration of his direction, Dr. Seikeran said that Ayurvedic science had always emphasized that the digestion of a person was important to maintain a healthy, while the Greek doctor and philosopher Hipocrates in 460 a. C. pointed out that the ‘billion’ of bacteria in the intestine not only maintained the healthy intestine, but also all the functions of the body.

Just although many infectious diseases are caused by bacteria, paradoxical is the bacteria used to combat diseases. The bacteria, which is now used to control diseases, can replace anti-biotics in the near future, he said.

Previously, Prakash Halami, the chief scientist and head of the Department of Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, Mysuru, said for an AAA for a LEED food.

“Therefore, food products with positive health benefits with equilibrium nutrients are accredited with a reduced risk of metabolic diseases. Parallel, there is a growing awareness about intestinal health, which reproduces and supposes products in a healthy, which is added with a nutritional improvement and occupies an important place in the development of functional foods,” he said.

He said that the Face Food Market was valued at around $ 378.7 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $ 689.4 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) or a duration of 10.5% in the estimated period. Among functional foods, it is projected that the probiotic market will grow from $ 71.2 billion in 2024 to $ 105.7 billion by 2029, which reflects a CAG or 8.2%.

The director of Cftri, Sridevi Annapurna Singh, presided over the function.