To get the maximum benefit from the use of kefir, you need to know a few secrets.

Fresh one-day yogurt is good for treating constipation, and three-day – on the contrary, with diarrhea.

One-day kefir is traditionally used in body cleansing programs. Constipation? Lots of waste and toxins? Drink one-day kefir every day.

Two-day kefir is recommended for obesity, diabetes, colitis, gastritis, liver and kidney diseases, lungs, bronchitis, anemia, atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction and stroke. However, it should not be used for exacerbations of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.

Three-day kefir is the most acidic, and it is even more contraindicated in case of exacerbations of the ulcer. You can not drink it to people with high acidity and kidney disease.

Kefir is recommended to be included in the breakfast or lunch menu. Older people, and those who suffer from constipation, flatulence, bloating, are recommended to drink it during dinner.

Kefir drunk at night will help you sleep better, as it contains tryptophan.

Kefir and baby food
Kefir is useful and even indispensable in baby food, starting from infancy. It can be prescribed as early as 2 weeks of age, especially if the mother’s milk is not enough or not at all. It is prepared in dairy kitchens. First, kefir is used, diluted by half with rice water with the addition of 5% sugar (called B-kefir). But they give it to the baby for a short time, no more than two weeks, replacing it with kefir with rice water, diluted in it by a third (B-kefir). Finally, after 2.5-3 months, the baby is transferred to whole kefir (sugar up to 10%).

Kefir has advantages over milk when artificially fed. Kefir complementary foods help children better absorb nutrients – protein, fat, calcium, iron, phosphorus. Of course, kefir cannot be regarded as a full-fledged breast milk substitute, and consumed by itself, without sweet milk formulas, can lead to the development of acidosis in a child.