Dear readers, The gut is called the second brain of the human body. Because gut health has a critical role in performing all vital activities. It significantly affects the immunity level of individuals, their general health status, and even their social lives. The stress, sadness and troubles experienced are reflected in the intestinal system. For this reason, foods that are good for the intestine are recommended when coping with distress and stress. In short, if the intestinal system collapses, the whole system collapses too… Just like the brain. Of course, this is true for animals as well as humans. Gut health is vitally important for all living things, including our farm animals. The general health and immunity of the animal are significantly affected by guts. In addition, it should not be ignored that there is a strong link between performance and quality in animal production and gut health. As in humans, the most effective way to maintain gut health in animals is primarily nutrition. Feeding or correct nutrition in livestock is a multifaceted concept which varies according to the type of animal, age and environmental conditions. But one of the main criteria is the digestibility and absorption of nutrients. In this month's issue of Feed & Additive Magazine, we tried to cover this vital issue on poultry basis. Poultry is the segment of livestock where intestinal problems are most common and most affected. In the past, antibiotics were widely used as growth promoters, especially in the poultry sector. This gave manufacturers an advantage in terms of performance. However, due to increasing antibiotic resistance, the use of AGPs is banned or restricted in many regions, especially in Europe. Meanwhile, worldwide demand for poultry products continues to increase rapidly. Therefore, poultry farmers need to focus on more things to produce without AGP, to respond to increasing demand, and to increase the profitability and efficiency of their businesses. Gut health is one of them and coming first. We hope this issue will make a good contribution to poultry farmers in terms of gut health, AGP-free production, high performance and profitability in poultry. Enjoy your reading… Publisher Muhammed Akatay [email protected] Responsible Manager Özlem Buyruk Akatay [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Derya Yıldız [email protected] Editors James Watson Bahadır Büyükkılıç [email protected] Design Alper Kandemir [email protected] Web Design Caner Cem Pulat [email protected] Proofreading Lisa Atakul [email protected] Circulation and Data Responsible Amine Şengün [email protected] Ataturk St. Metropol Istanbul Ste. Block C1, No:376 Atasehir, Istanbul/TURKEY Phone: +90 850 220 5064 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.feedandadditive.com Publication Type: Periodic (Monthly) EDITOR Second brain: Guts… Derya YILDIZ © Three Plus Media | All rights reserved. Reproduction, in whole or in part, is prohibited without the written permission of the publisher. *DISCLAIMER: All views and ideas expressed in articles published in the magazine reflect the point of views of the author(s), not that of the Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board or Publisher of Feed & Additive Magazine. The Editor-in-Chief, Editors, Editorial Board and Publisher assume no responsibility or liability in such cases. The publisher does not give any warranty and representation to the accuracy or completeness of the contents and data published in the magazine. All responsibility of the contents, articles and information published in the magazine belongs to the authors. The publisher and the authors cannot be held responsible for any damages resulting from the use of the whole or part of the content of the magazine. feedandadditive
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