The unique bioactive polysaccharides prevent the attachment of microbes to tissue by forming a physical block against the attachment of harmful microbes to tissue (anti-adhesion) and temporarily retaining harmful microbes in one place (clustering), preventing them from multiplying.
Anti-adhesion
Clustering
Microbes colonize all our body surfaces, both inside (mucosa) and outside (skin), with microbial cells outnumbering human cells by about ten times.
We host more than a thousand different species of these microorganisms. This community of microbes that inhabit the human body (or a specific site in the body) is collectively referred to as the microbiota.