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Can Bacteria be Good for Your Dog?

Posted on: Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 08:00 CDT

GENEVA, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Your dog's intestinal tract contains 65% of his immune system and contains both good and bad bacteria, the balance which is central to his health and well being. We are all aware of bacteria that cause illness but equally there are bacteria that can actually be good for your dog. Prebiotics contained in super premium nutrition like Eukanuba, increase the good bacteria, allowing them to crowd out the bad bacteria and help maintain a healthy balance in what is a complex internal ecosystem, but how do they work?

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Prebiotic FOS works by encouraging the growth of good bacteria in a dog's digestive tract, and because the prebiotics are selectively broken down only by good bacteria, they do not increase the levels of bad bacteria like Salmonella. In fact, the bad bacteria levels actually decrease as a result of being crowded out by the good bacteria helping to maintain a healthy balance.

As the digestive tract is a primary barrier from the things he might swallow on a daily basis, helping maintain this defensive integrity is vital to your dog's wellbeing.

Having evolved as a carnivore, your dog is designed to eat and digest animal protein as his primary food source and has a highly specialized gastrointestinal system, or gut, to do so. His natural ancestor, the wolf, shares much of the same physiology, enabling it to process and derive nutritional and digestive benefits from the whole of the prey it consumes, helping maintain its immune system and wellbeing in the wild.

Your dog's more refined diet, still rich in animal protein, is better suited to his domestic lifestyle but he still needs ingredients that help sustain his natural defenses, which is where prebiotics can help. In some ways the advancement of prebiotics for dogs, mirrors recent developments in human nutrition. Good health, it would seem, starts from the inside out for us and our dogs.

Clinically proven prebiotics in Eukanuba help strike the right balance between good and bad bacteria in the gut, supporting strong natural defenses that help your dog be the best he can be.

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