PROBIOTICS, WHERE WE MOST START

Probiotics are the foundation for our health. All of the health principles we can apply to stay healthy can crumble down on us if we miss this foundation. We can build the most amazing beautiful and strong building but it can come down easily if the foundation is weak.  The word probiotics says it all. Probiotics means "pro life". Antibiotic means the opposite, it means "against life". Probiotics are live organisms that are like soldiers strategically positioned in areas that protect us against outside invaders. From the mouth all the way down the anus is the tube that this organism are assigned to protect from invaders outside and enemies already inside this long tube.

In order to keep this army of organism doing its job properly we need to understand what are those things that keep them operating with optimal strength and also what are those things that can damage their effectiveness. Our own bodies through the kind of food we eat can produce Probiotics or it can be deposited there also through the food we eat. These probiotics are 85 percent good bacteria and 15 percent bad bacteria that the body uses to turn it around to benefit the body. What is important is the balance in which good bacteria most outnumber by much the bad bacteria.

Once we have an optimal defense system then we most start optimizing the positive part of our bodies that deals with nutrients. When we build a house the first part we install is the plumbing system or the elimination system.  Our bodies are already built and all we need to do now is providing the raw materials in order to optimize it.

Probiotics are strains of live microorganisms beneficial to the host. The most common types of these microbes are lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria.  The worst practice that destroys these beneficial organisms is the use of antibiotics. Well, sometimes we have to use antibiotics. However, we most immediately replenish these beneficial organisms through diet.  Antibiotics kill the enemy bacteria but also the good ones living us prone to more attacks, especially by some yeasts that lives in our guts. The body for our own benefit in a small amount uses these yeasts.

However there is an especially aggressive type that takes advantage of a weak gut defense to try to colonize the whole tube from the anus through the mouth. If we don’t take care of these yeasts (Candida Albicans especially) these yeasts will start developing branches like plants and will penetrate the walls of the intestines and even reach the brain to release toxins in the blood stream. In this stage there is triple trouble trying to bring our guts to a healthy and functional immune system.

People with a compromise immune system will suffer from allergies, sinus infections, asthma and later on it can develop into many other illnesses. Dr. William G. Crook and Dr. John P. Trowbridge/Morton Walker wrote about illnesses like cancer, psoriasis and even Crohn’s disease as possible consequences of yeasts gone out of control.

To keep our immune system properly working we should eat foods like aged cheese and other aged products. Commercial yogurts are not a good way to replenish our good bacteria. Instead we should use the ones that come in pills, powder, liquid and capsule forms. 5 billions or more  per serving will be a good dose to take.