Probiotic foods are produced by the action of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. These invisible micro-organisms break down sugars and carbohydrates in food, making them more digestible and nutritious.
Probiotics enhance the immune system by favourably altering the gut micro-ecology and preventing unfriendly organisms from gaining a foothold. They prevent the overgrowth of yeast and fungus, and produce substances that can lower cholesterol.
Our colon can maintain its health with 15 percent unfriendly bacteria, if the body contains at least 85 percent probiotic friendly bacteria. Most people have this percentage reversed.
A good probiotic supplement will contain millions and millions of live bacteria to bolster and replenish levels of the health promoting good bugs in your digestive tract. Once there, these probiotic reinforcements join forces with the existing friendly bacteria to help inhibit the growth of more harmful microbes.
When we need probioticsTo stimulate the immune system.
Prevent development of allergies and eczema. Allergies have increased, partially due to the deficit of bacteria in modern living. The immune system is therefore much less active than it should be.
During and after treatment with medical antibiotics. Bad bacteria increases during antibiotic therapy, and can stay elevated for almost a month.
After chemotherapy/radiation.
Fungal infections such as candida (thrush) are yeast blooms which occur when the immune system is low. It occurs in the vagina and mouth – common after antibiotics, in times of stress, and in people with a weak immune system such as infants, older people, diabetics, during pregnancy, and people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
During times of high stress.
With a diet too high in sugar, as sugar disturbs the balance of good and bad bowel flora.
Urinary tract infections.
Athlete's foot.
For indigestion, diarrhoea or a stomach virus.
Irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s Disease.
Due to the use of antibiotics in food production. Poor diets and cramped living conditions produce abnormally high infection rates among factory farmed animals. To maintain profits, and grow more animals, bigger and faster, many farmers dose animals as a preventive measure. This includes healthy grass-fed herds. About 80 percent of the antibiotics manufactured worldwide are given to farmed poultry, meat and dairy animals. Consuming these animal products increases human resistance to antibiotics, and the rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Outbreaks in hospitals (and sometimes children’s day care centres or rest homes). An estimated 100,000 people die in the USA every year from drug-resistant infections picked up in hospital settings. The overall number of deaths caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria is likely much higher.
After a detox. A detox, flush, enema or colonic cleanse, removes the good with the bad bacteria, so it is necessary to recolonise the gut with friendly bacteria.
Chlorine and sodium fluoride (in treated water) are perhaps two of the most damaging substances to delicate intestinal flora balance.
Counteract intestinal harm of pharmaceutical drugs and the contraceptive pill.
Probiotics enhance the immune system by favourably altering the gut micro-ecology and preventing unfriendly organisms from gaining a foothold. They prevent the overgrowth of yeast and fungus, and produce substances that can lower cholesterol.
Our colon can maintain its health with 15 percent unfriendly bacteria, if the body contains at least 85 percent probiotic friendly bacteria. Most people have this percentage reversed.
A good probiotic supplement will contain millions and millions of live bacteria to bolster and replenish levels of the health promoting good bugs in your digestive tract. Once there, these probiotic reinforcements join forces with the existing friendly bacteria to help inhibit the growth of more harmful microbes.
When we need probioticsTo stimulate the immune system.
Prevent development of allergies and eczema. Allergies have increased, partially due to the deficit of bacteria in modern living. The immune system is therefore much less active than it should be.
During and after treatment with medical antibiotics. Bad bacteria increases during antibiotic therapy, and can stay elevated for almost a month.
After chemotherapy/radiation.
Fungal infections such as candida (thrush) are yeast blooms which occur when the immune system is low. It occurs in the vagina and mouth – common after antibiotics, in times of stress, and in people with a weak immune system such as infants, older people, diabetics, during pregnancy, and people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
During times of high stress.
With a diet too high in sugar, as sugar disturbs the balance of good and bad bowel flora.
Urinary tract infections.
Athlete's foot.
For indigestion, diarrhoea or a stomach virus.
Irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s Disease.
Due to the use of antibiotics in food production. Poor diets and cramped living conditions produce abnormally high infection rates among factory farmed animals. To maintain profits, and grow more animals, bigger and faster, many farmers dose animals as a preventive measure. This includes healthy grass-fed herds. About 80 percent of the antibiotics manufactured worldwide are given to farmed poultry, meat and dairy animals. Consuming these animal products increases human resistance to antibiotics, and the rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Outbreaks in hospitals (and sometimes children’s day care centres or rest homes). An estimated 100,000 people die in the USA every year from drug-resistant infections picked up in hospital settings. The overall number of deaths caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria is likely much higher.
After a detox. A detox, flush, enema or colonic cleanse, removes the good with the bad bacteria, so it is necessary to recolonise the gut with friendly bacteria.
Chlorine and sodium fluoride (in treated water) are perhaps two of the most damaging substances to delicate intestinal flora balance.
Counteract intestinal harm of pharmaceutical drugs and the contraceptive pill.
Why we need probiotics
Probiotic foods are produced by the action of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. These invisible micro-organisms break down sugars and carbohydrates in food, making them more digestible and nutritious.