TURKU, Finland — A Finnish researcher suggests adding cheese with probiotic bacteria to the diets of elderly people to help them fight infection and disease.
Lead author Dr. Fandi Ibrahim of the University of Turku in Finland says probiotics help the gastrointestinal tract — the main entry for bacteria cells into the body and where 70 percent of vital immunoglobulin cells are created — maintain immunity.
The ever-increasing elderly population, he explains, needs to fight immunosenescene — age-related immune system deterioration preceding infectious diseases, chronic inflammation disorders and cancers.
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