Many health care practitioners believe all health issues are related in some way to the process of digestion. The Chinese also believes that the stomach is the key to our entire body’s health. If you think about it, almost everything we consume is received, processed and distributed from the stomach. This is where the essential Probiotics, commonly known as acidophilus, come in. Probiotics play a crucial role in improving our digestive health, which, in turn, is interconnected to every single function in our bodies.
Probiotics are the friendly flora, or bacteria, that support the normal colon ecology for digestion, absorption, elimination, and prevention of yeasts, bacteria and parasites. Simply put, they are the soldiers which keep our stomach, intestines and colon clean and happy.
Imbalance of Intestinal Flora
Unfortunately, we are constantly surrounded by toxins and stresses, both internally and externally, which can wreak havoc on our bodies. Furthermore, there are several factors that affect the balance of bacteria in our body. The air we now are forced to breathe in the world’s cities has over 600 toxins that also affect this balance. Birth control pills, heat, cold, preservatives found in most foodstuff, salt, alcohol, colas, fluorides, and chlorines, just to name a few, also destroy or compromise this delicate balance of bacteria in the gut!
Antibiotics found in drug therapy and in the meat and foods we eat destroy the important balance of bacteria in our body.
The good bacteria in our GI tract is directly affected and becomes a casualty of war; good versus bad bacteria. If the stomach and intestinal area is toxic and laden with harmful bacteria, how do we expect our bodies to stay strong and healthy with a toxic life-force?
With the depletion of good flora comes the harmful bacteria and yeast which can monopolize the entire digestive track. As a result the body can become very acidic and prone to illness, yeast infections, Candida, digestive disorder, and much more.
It is recommended to take 3 or more billion live organisms of Probiotics daily as maintenance. The most commonly forms of acidophilus found in supplemental forms include: Lactobacillus acidophilus (the original strain); Lactobacillus casei; Lactobacillus bulgaricus; Bifidobacterium bifidum and various other.
HOW CAN PROBIOTICS HELP ME?
1. Probiotics increases energy in these five ways:
a. It improves your digestion
Nothing the human body does demands more energy than digestion. When your digestion is slowed down or inefficient, most or all of your energy is sapped up for digestion, leaving little or none left for anything else.
So you feel wiped out and rely on coffee, soda or vending machine snacks to get through the day. But these make the problem even worse, because harmful bacteria feed on sugars and acids. Harmful bacteria overgrowth impairs your digestion even more.
Probiotics improves the digestive process by helping to regulate the pH of the intestinal tract. Better, easier digestion means more energy available for YOU.
b. It helps eliminate waste build-up
Toxins from old built-up wastes in your intestines can enter the bloodstream. From there, they travel all over the body and cause pain, inflammation and fatigue because your cells cannot operate as they should when they are overrun with wastes, not getting the oxygen they need.
A good Probiotic formula has a broom-like cleansing effect and helps eliminate built up wastes from your intestines.
When your body is clean on the inside and not bogged down with those wastes and toxins, your cells can get the oxygen they need. More oxygen means more energy for what you want to do.
c. Increased nutrient absorption
Harmful bacteria lining your intestinal walls block nutrient absorption. So you can potentially eat a very healthy meal and still get very few of the nutrients in your food. Deficiencies in essential nutrients are a common cause of low energy and fatigue.
Probiotics helps increase nutrient absorption by fighting off the bad bacteria and competing with them for space along your intestinal walls. So you end up better nourished, and you have more energy.
d. No more leaky gut
Leaky gut syndrome is when bad bacteria eat away at the lining of the intestine, making it more porous. This allows toxins and improperly digested proteins to seep into the bloodstream and lymph system, which can make you toxic and sluggish (and cause a host of sicknesses and diseases).
Probiotics adheres to the intestinal wall, making it stronger and less porous. Plus it encourages the growth of good bacteria, which further strengthens the gut wall.
With a strong gut wall, toxins, pathogens and improperly digested proteins are kept "contained" and can be eliminated through a bowel movement as they should be.
e. It reduces inflammation
Inflammation can result when the immune system sees normal bacteria in your body as a dangerous pathogen or invader and attacks it.
Inflammation is being implicated in increasing numbers of medical conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome.
Probiotics helps to support the development of regulatory T cells in your immune system. These T cells help reduce overzealous immune responses throughout your body, which helps to reduce fatigue-causing inflammation.
Other things that Probiotics can do for you
1. Boost immune function
2. Favorably alter the intestinal microflora balance in the gut
3. Inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria and pathogens
4. Promote digestion
5. Increase resistance to infection
6. Prevent/Reduce diarrhea associated with the use of antibiotics or other illness
7. Increased mucous production prevents adherence and colonization of pathogenic bacteria along the
intestinal wall.
8. Tightens the mucosal barrier (decreases gut permeability)
9. Helps prevent the entry of pathogens (disease causing agents) and allergens (substances that cause
allergies) into the blood stream.
10. Produce substances (bacteriocins and antitoxins) that inhibit pathogenic bacteria.
11. Produce enzymes which aid in the digestion of lactose and breakdown of proteins.
12. Probiotics lower colon luminal pH (increase acidity) and foster growth of beneficial nonpathogenic bacteria
Dietary Sources of Probiotics
In 1908, a researcher named Elie Metchnikoff observed that Bulgarian peasants lived to a ripe, old age and were disease free. These peasants consumed copious amount of soured milk, which contained living microbes that eliminated disease causing bacteria. One of the Probiotic strains found in soured (fermented) milk is now known as lactobacillus bulgaricus, in honor of its origin of discovery.
Most fermented or cultured food products and beverages provide us with beneficial bacteria:
1. Kefir (cultured milk), yogurt, sour cream, cheese
2. Pickled vegetables (sauerkraut, olives, ginger)
3. Fermented soy products (miso, tempeh)
4. Fermented tea (kombucha)
Who Needs Probiotics?
Every person could benefit from Probiotic supplementation, but it is especially important for people who have:
1. Allergies
2. Bladder and Vaginal Infections
3. High Cholesterol or Dyslipidemia
4. Chronic colds and flu
5. Constipation
6. Diarrhea
7. Halitosis (Chronic Bad Breath)
8. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or IBD
9. Lactose intolerance
10. Chronic skin condition (e.g. eczema)
A great diet alone is not enough to guarantee a healthy intestinal flora balance.
In order to give the population of good bacteria in your gut a fighting chance, it's essential to supplement with Probiotics. A healthy diet is important, but as you can see, it's not enough for most people. Too many other factors can get in the way.
Give your body the best possible defense against intestinal flora imbalance and all the GI problems and immune system harm it can cause.
In St. Eve Concepts LTD, Flora Plus a Probiotic is one of our products.
Let FLORA PLUS help keep your intestinal flora where it needs to be for you to feel great all the time. You need an effective Probiotic like Flora Plus because there are factors that affect the bacteria in your intestines that can't be fixed by diet.
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