Lactobacillus Bulgaricus

Lactobacillus Bulgaricus – a gift from nature to Bulgaria for human’s health and longevityAt the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Russian scientist, Nobel prize winner, Ilya Mechnikov (1845-1916), while working in Pasteur Institute in Paris, commenced researches on the reason of aging of humans. He found out that during nutrition the proteins in the food are decomposed under the action of putrefactive bacteria in the large intestines and cause poisoning of the organism and early death.Mechnikov proved that the only food that could limit the development of the putrefactive bacteria in the intestines is the Bulgarian yoghurt. Thus he explained the circumstance that in Bulgaria the largest number of centenarians lives, at that in good health, and pointed out that of each 1 million Bulgarian citizens there are 426 people older than 100 years. For comparison, in Brazil the centenarians of 1 million citizens are 246, in Sweden 64, in Russia 62, in Belgium 52, in France and Germany 2 each, in the United Kingdom and Switzerland 1 each. Mechnikov reached to the conclusion that all this was due to the consumption of yoghurt by the Bulgarians. The Bulgarian citizen Dr. Stamen Grigorov, a student of medicine at the Geneva University at that time, undertook a research on the Bulgarian yoghurt and found out that the reason of the souring was due to a rodlike bacterium in symbiosis with one spherical, which through the consumption of yoghurt settle in the gastro-intestinal tract and suppresses the development of the harmful for the organism microflora.