What's Bifidobacterium Infantis for?

Bifidobacterium infantis is a lactic acid producing bacteria that provides many benefits to newborn infants as well as adults. Bifidobacterium infantis appears to help reduce excessive inflammation that is characteristic of conditions like irritable bowel syndrome1.

What is the purpose of Bifidobacterium infantis?

Bifidobacterium infantis is a lactic acid producing bacteria that provides many benefits to newborn infants as well as adults. Bifidobacterium infantis appears to help reduce excessive inflammation that is characteristic of conditions like irritable bowel syndrome1.

How does Bifidobacterium infantis work?

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are complex carbohydrates that microbial species of the milk-oriented microbiome (MOM) can use as a food source. Bifidobacterium infantis encodes many proteins that specifically bind and transport all types of HMOs into its cell and digest them internally.

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

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