It has already been an established fact that the bifidobacterial population constitutes nearly 95% of the bacterial community in the neonatals who have been breast fed. With increasing age the relative abundance of the bifidobacteria decreases which might explain some of the age related disorders in the elderly population and needs to be replaced with proper probiotic supplements containing the right combination and dosage of the bacterial strains. Nonetheless, the strains of the genus bifidobacteria are associated with the alleviation of a number of human diseased conditions like lactose intolerance, pregnancy complications, constipation, microbial infection, inflammatory bowel disease, diarrhea and so on.