Posts Tagged ‘probiotics’

Friendly Bacteria and Bacterial Foes

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

In today’s antiseptic climate, the term “friendly bacteria” seems a contradiction. Bacteria are bacteria aren’t they. And as such they are the enemies of our health and well-being, right?

Wrong.

I have used probiotic supplements topically to address external conditions, and I have used probiotic supplements and probiotic-rich foods to address internal conditions. In either case those friendly bacteria have proven their friendship. They have demonstrated their capability of dealing with the bacteria who are/were causing problems.

As I have previously stated, your intestinal tract will have 5 to 8 pounds of bacteria residing in it. I do not know how to determine the weight of bacteria we carry around on our skin. Depending upon what, or who, you are hosting, these bacteria will either keep you healthy or make you ill. On your skin, the friendly bacteria supply a range of benefits from protecting you from infections to preventing body odor.

Internally, the friendly bacteria manufacture B vitamins and other nutrients, they produce certain natural antibiotics that support your immune function, they keep the intestinal walls clean and in good repair, and they stimulate peristaltic movement. The wrong ones produce toxins, produce carcinogenic compounds, cause cracks and holes in the intestinal wall, and fill your intestines with putrefying sludge.

These bacteria are either important gains in our well-being, or they are serious obstacles to our health.

Why not just wipe out all bacteria and have a germ-free gut and skin? There are two reasons:

  • We would die without the benefits of beneficial bacteria.
  • The destructive bacteria are stronger than our old poisons, and are more adaptable than our ability to create new poisons.

The most effective means of controlling the destructive bacteria is to maintain the balance of viable colonies of beneficial or friendly bacteria.

Simplexity Health’s probiotic supplements have an edge over other brands because they incorporate the AFA algae into the colonies contained in the capsules. Thus when awakened, those beneficial bacteria are supplied with a ready source of complete nutrition. This means they can set about implanting vigorous colonies in your intestinal tract. Other brands may have larger numbers of viable organisms contained in the capsule. But the thing that really matters is the number of living, vigorous colonies of friendly bacteria that implant in your gut or are available to work for you on your skin.

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by Ellis Hein

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Probiotics, the Professionals of Life

Monday, April 16th, 2012

“Welcome to the major leagues, the home of the pros, where we do professional quality work for the love of it. We work as though our lives depend upon it.” This is the sign posted at the opening to the intestinal tract. No substance should be allowed to enter that will upset or hinder the work of your biotic pros.

Stress, many medications, alcohol, refined sugars, food additives, and more can destroy the colonies of your friendly bacteria. Remove these professional life-givers from your system and your troubles have only just begun.

But there is hope. You can reintroduce friendly bacteria into your intestinal tract by consuming lacto-fermented (i.e. cultured) foods containing live cultures and by taking probiotics supplements. (These need not be mutually exclusive.)

Yoghurt is, perhaps, the most commonly thought of cultured food, but most commercially available cultured foods have been treated to kill the live cultures. However, these foods are easy to grow yourself. I include several recipes in the pages of this blog. You can follow my examples and then branch out to devise your own recipes.

If you are purchasing probiotic supplements, you need to know that all brands are not created equal. Some brands may not even contain the organisms they claim. Some do not contain the numbers of viable organisms listed. It is also important that the supplement contain colonies instead of individual organisms. Among the reputable brands, only Simplexity Health’s probiotics are micro blended with AFA Algae. This gives them the food to quickly establish vigorously growing colonies in your intestinal tract. In fact, the AFA makes Simplexity Health’s pro biotics more professional.

By Ellis Hein

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Birth is crucial to your immune system.

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

25% of your initial immunity comes from the birth canal. What do I mean?

Your primary immune system is the barrier between you and the outside environment. We are so constructed that we have the “outside” inside us as well as outside. Our digestive tract is open, on a restricted basis, to the outside world. We are somewhat like a complicated pipe with legs and arms attached. The real us lies in the pipe walls. So it is of primary importance to control what substances and what organisms have access to the real me.

The primary organs of control are your skin and intestinal lining. Both of these organs require beneficial bacteria to do their job. Your skin was inoculated with these bacteria when you were born unless your mother had just received a course of antibiotics or you were delivered by c-section.

75% of your primary immune system depends upon your intestinal tract, which will have 5 to 8 pounds of bacteria. These bacteria are not a weight-loss option. Your only choice is, “Are these pounds beneficial or are they detrimental? You began accumulating beneficial bacteria through your mother’s breast milk. In many traditional communities, you would have continued to accumulate beneficial bacteria by eating cultured foods.

In our “anti-culture” of antiseptics, antibiotics, and irradiated foods, our food practices and our medicines destroy our immunity by killing the beneficial bacteria on our skin and in our intestinal tract. This leaves an environment free for the proliferation of detrimental bacteria. This, in turn, wrecks havoc on the real me inhabiting the “pipe walls.”

What are the consequences of having a prevalence of bad bacteria in the gut? How can you change things for the better? I will talk about these issues in future posts.

By Ellis Hein

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