You have all heard of ANTI-biotics, but how about PRO-biotics? The term “probiotic” stems from Greek, and it means “for-life”. Studies show that these friendly creatures are indeed essential contributors to everyday well-being.
These microrganisms not only aid in the digestion process, but they have been found to affect numerous gene activities, assisting them in expressing health and fighting disease. Interestingly enough, it has also been illustrated that probiotics boost your immune system and assist in lowering blood pressure.
Several studies have highlighted the fact that probiotics stimulated changes similar to those desired by the pharmaceutical industry, but naturally and therefore without negative side –effects. In fact, probiotics offer NO negative side effects at all! Researchers also revealed that drinking a probiotic rich drink influenced the activity of hundreds of genes in a favourable manner.
Probitics are readily available and quite easy to find, and choosing a high quality version will help rebalance your intestinal tract with good, healthy bacteria. There are probiotics available for all ages!
This beneficial bacteria has a long lasting, and potent effect on your gut’s immune system, as well as your overall immune system.
These micro-organisms play a vital part in the mucosal immune system in the digestive tract aiding in antibody production to unwanted invading bacteria, in other words: the one’s that “make you sick”.
These friendly little guys actually train your immune system to distinguish friend from foe, and help in the delivery of an appropriate immune response. This is so important since an over-reaction to non harmful antigens is what gives rise to allergies and most frequent colds and flu’s.
As if this weren’t enough, probiotics can also help stabilize and normalize your weight. In fact, studies have linked a 5% reduction in abdominal fat, and 3% reduction in subcutaneaous fat, simply by drinking a quality probiotic fermented milk beverage for approx. 12 weeks!
It is quite apparent that probiotics perform a wide variety of useful and beneficial functions, and some of which have yet to be discovered. It is such an easy addition to one’s lifestyle, that it should be strongly encouraged to all ages.
It is also note worthy to suggest the use of probiotics following the use of antibiotics for any illness’s that one may incur.
Antibiotics are designed to kill all the bacteria within the gut flora, including the gram positive bacteria (good bacteria), to eliminate all the toxic bacteria that causes use to suffer. It is a must that the gram positive bacteria be replenished because it is this that allows us to absorb and digest all the nutrients that our body needs from the foods that we eat. Unfortunately, this is likely not something that you are going to hear about from your family physician.
Dr. Ryan Pope is a Kanata chiropractor at The Wellness Group, a multidisciplinary health facility in Ontario, Canada. He currently practices chiropractic in Kanata full time with a focus on educating and empowering his practice members to harness the innate intelligence of the body to heal itself through the chiropractic lifestyle.
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