Short review - why probiotics?

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Audrey/,

There are some good books on this subject. I'm sorry I

don't have any titles handy!

Basically, we all have hundreds of organisms that live

in our gut. . . Normal and natural. They're supposed

to be there. . . They help us digest our foods and

perform other functions.

When our immune systems get suppressed or we take

antibiotics or steroids, all of these organisms get

suppressed, if not wiped out. Unfortunately, the

negative organisms come back more readily than the

positive ones. When they get out of balance, the

negative organisms prevent the positive ones from

thriving and we get sick.

Products like acidopholis, Primal Defense, Three Lac,

contain millions of living organisms that, in the

short term, will combat the negative organisms. In the

long term, they will colonize and start replicating.

There are some organisms that, once killed off, will

never return.

Normally, we would get a lot of these organisms from

our food. . . If foods were grown the way the used to

be - without pesticides and herbicides - and if the

organisms weren't lost in processing foods. The closer

to the earth you can eat, the more of these organisms

you will get through your diet.

You can ferment some of your own foods . . . Keflir,

yogurt, saurkraut come to mind. Excellent! But, for

the rest, once these organisms are killed off, you'll

need to find a supplement. I consider Primal Defense

outstanding because it contains a wide variety of

organisms.

Hope this helps explain why we're always recommending

probiotics, probiotics, probiotics!

God Bless,

Rogene