Nutrition and animal health
Maintaining or promoting intestinal health is of crucial importance for optimal production efficiency, overall health and promoting the welfare of our production animals. Are you wondering what factors affect gut health? Our consultants have a broad knowledge of topics like the immune system in pigs, the immune modulatory interventions, effect of the diet on intestinal health, interplay of gastro-intestinal microbiota etc.
The gut can be regarded as the gatekeeper allowing important dietary components to be absorbed. It is known that there are large variations in the functionality (digestion, absorption) and health (immune capacity, tolerance) of the intestine within and between breeds of the same species. Critical factors that contribute to this variation include: food/feed composition and diet, (epi) genetic factors, and the composition and activity of the residing microbiota.
Early life stage is of critical importance in the development of the biological capacity of the gut. During this stage, critical morphological developments take place, the local immune system is shaped, and the foundations are laid for the composition of the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract.
Microbiota play an important role in digestion, fermentation, nutrient absorption, satiation, energy metabolism, competition with pathogenic micro-organisms, and homeostasis of immunity and tolerance. Maintaining or promoting intestinal health is of crucial importance for optimal production efficiency, overall health and promoting the welfare of our production animals.
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