Postbiotics

Postbiotics: Health and Industry provides a detailed overview on the fundamentals, biological and therapeutic properties, safety, and application of postbiotics in health and industry. The book is organized into five sections providing a comprehensive discussion of postbiotics. The book begins with coverage on the fundamentals of postbiotics which includes insights on probiotic microorganisms, postbiotics and host-microbe interaction, analysis, and characterization of postbiotics. The book goes on to delves into the different types of postbiotics and their mechanisms. The remaining portion of the book explores the various health, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications of postbiotics.

• Provides an overview on the separation, characterization, and identification of postbiotics from probiotic microbes
• Includes classes of postbiotics and their mechanisms of action
• Discusses the safety of postbiotics in humans and animals, the use of multi-omics to understand the effect of postbiotics on human physiology, and analyses the existing regulatory framework for postbiotics