Optimising gastrointestinal functionality

Recently, the term gut health has acquired increasing importance in animal nutrition and more focus of scientific developments and modern feeding strategies. From a scientific perspective, however, there is still no consensus on how to operationalise the factor of gut health. A whole series of positive functions of the gastrointestinal tract are associated with gut health, see Figure 1. An effective digestive function and the absorption of nutrients, the absence of gastrointestinal diseases, a