Acid bacteria immune system stimulation

Other products under current development in the pharmafood sector include a salt substitute for hypertension a yogurt-like product that adds bacteria to stimulate the body s immune system and a drink containing docosahexaenoic acid (DTIA, the baby formula additive) that Japanese consumers believe boosts brain power before exams. 

Lactic acid bacteria based fermented products have a long reputation for being positively beneficial to humans, particularly linked with fermented milk such as nutritional improvement of foods, inhibition of enteric pathogens, hypocholestaemic action, anticancer activity, and stimulation of the immune system (Adams and Moss 1995). Similarly, phenolic phytochemicals have potential for regulation and chemopre-vention of oxidative and infectious diseases (Shetty 1999). 

Anionic polyelectrolytes have been shown to enhance resistance to bacteria and fungi, enhance immune response, inhibit adjuvent arthritis and either depress or stimulate phagocytic activity of the reticuloendothelial system [458,459]. Carboxylic acid polymers have shown interferon induction, antiviral activity, and tumor growth inhibition [460]. The effects include inhibition of sarcoma, leukemia, polyoma and vesicular stomatitis virus. In one application, the cytotoxicity of bleomycin toward cultured mammalian cells was synergisti-cally enhanced by stirring in the presence of high molecular weight polyfacrylic acid) [461]. 

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