How healthy is your Digestive tract? Your gut contains the secret to good health

70% of the immune system is found in the digestive tract.

Your gut naturally contains the good beneficial bacteria which helps keep the disease causing bad bacteria under control. However, these good bacteria are increasingly compromised by the ingestion of chemically-laden, over processed foods, sugary drinks, antibiotics, alcohol, stress and the polluted air we breathe. It is therefore important to support and boost these good bacteria by supplementing on a daily basis with quality probiotics to restore optimum levels. Unfortunately not all probiotics do the work that they promise to do.

Benefits of Probiotics
Improves digestion
Produces vitamins and minerals
Lowers cholesterol
Regulates hormones
Boosts immunity
Better resistance to infections
Relieves symptoms of thrush
Helps with allergies
Lactose intolerance

The combination of certain foods and probiotic supplements make a difference to the balance of bacteria inside your gut and consequently your health.

Beneficial good bacteria foods are:
Bananas
Organic unsweetened plain yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese
Sauerkraut
Sourdough bread from wheat or rye
Barley
Garlic
Jerusalem artichoke

Probiotics- a natural Antibiotic
They stop harmful bacteria such as E. coli, salmonella, campylobacter which causes food poisoning and staphylococci which is responsible for sore throats.
Probiotics also improve the fighting power of your immune system and therefore important for the treatment of cancer, allergies as well as infections caused by viruses, parasites and yeasts such as Candida albicans which is responsible for thrush.

When Probiotics are needed
Probiotics should be taken ideally on a daily basis, but are essential if suffering from any of the following symptoms.
Infections eg: sore throat, candida, bladder infections
Food poisoning
Digestive disorders: constipation, diarrhoea
After a course of antibiotics
After surgery
Stress
Elderly

Probiotic supplements are best taken one hour either side of food.
If taking therapeutically, to inoculate the digestive tract after antibiotic use, or to kill an infection in the case of diarrhoea, for a short period only you may need to take a higher dose than  recommended on the package - approximately twice the amount. This higher dose may result in flatulence but this will subside.


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