The Importance Of Probiotics To Our Health And Wellness
By pam
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Have you ever wondered what’s the secret to achieve optimal health and wellness? It’s actually quite simple. If you’ve discovered the body’s potential to heal itself, then you already have it. But the question is: how?
Our immune system is our body’s inherent defense mechanism against diseases. It identifies viruses, bad bacteria, parasitic worms, tumor cells and protects our healthy cells and tissues from them. Given the understanding that the human body works that way, we must focus upon the immune system and support it to gain its highest potential.
Czerral explains in a OneGroup newsletter how to nourish our immune system with probiotics to attain its potential.
For the immune system to reach this potential it must have raw materials in the form of organic nutrients at its disposal. Ideally these organic nutrients would come from whole foods grown in organic soils because the quality of any plant is a reflection of the environment it is grown in.
The immune system is so intelligent it recognises the difference between manmade biochemical nutrients and natural ones produced by the body’s own cells or found in nature’s whole foods.
The body reacts in a form of shock to manmade nutrients which it identifies as a ‘foreign substance’. Foreign substances cause the body to shut off other parts of the immune system, particularly in the stem cells where the basic building blocks of healthy new cells are spawned. Therefore the potential for future repair of damaged cells is compromised.
To actualize the potential of the immune system we must first address the needs of the body in relation to bacteria. The balance of good bacteria and what has been labelled as ‘bad bacteria’ must be in a ratio of 85% good and 15% bad.
Once this most important ratio falls out of balance, disease manifests in the body and overwhelms the immune system.
Furthermore, there are several factors that affect the balance of bacteria in our body.
Antibiotics found in drug therapy and in the meat and foods we eat destroy the important balance of bacteria in our body.
The air we now are forced to breathe in the world’s cities has over 600 toxins that also affect this balance. Birth control pills, heat, cold, preservatives found in most foodstuff, salt, alcohol, colas, fluorides, and chlorines, just to name a few, also destroy or compromise this delicate balance of bacteria in the gut!
If you want long and healthier lives, then you must learn how to restore the balance of bacteria in your body by:
- replacing good bacteria in your intestinal tract on a daily basis
- load up your body with a wide variety of whole food organic nutrients.
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Nicely stated.. You’ve done a very nice job of highlighting the importance of our immune systems. After all, we rely so heavily on our body’s ability to heal itself.. without a health immune system we would simply cease to exist.
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I started using those little bottles of good bacteria (actimel, yakult) And must say have noticed a massive improvement in my overall well being, not sure if its the placebo effect or something is actually going on in my belly, but am carrying on
That’s great Milly. Sound like your body needed some probiotics.
I use them sometimes too but not a lot since they are expensive for what you get and loaded with sugar. But I must admit they taste good.
I want to try this!