Probiotics End School Sick Days

 

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'Getting kids outfitted and ready to go back to school can be budget busting, but here is one more thing you might want to buy. Probiotics can strengthen your children’s immune systems and help them withstand the onslaught of bacteria so typical of a school or daycare environment.

There are probiotics formulas designed specifically for children that can help them stay healthy and free of colds, flu and allergies so they are present at school every day and alert and attentive to what is being taught.'

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Can Probiotics Help Your Brain, Too?

 

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'A recent study has provided more evidence to support the old adage, “you are what you eat.” 
 
While most of us know that probiotics are friendly bacteria that help us enjoy a healthy digestive system, researchers have now found that these same bacteria in the gut may affect brain function, as well.

We’re not talking about increasing your intelligence here—though that may be possible, too—but making changes in the emotional area of the brain. Would you like to experience less stress and anxiety? It could be that you would feel happier if you supplemented your diet with probiotics.' 

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Should You Get a Stool Test?

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With all the research on gut health, should you submit to a stool test to see how you’re doing? 'What’s the next best step toward optimal wellness after you’ve made positive changes to your diet, added super foods, started a nutritional supplement plan, and taken blood tests to assure that your food and supplements are working? 

If you guessed gut health, you’re right. 

For decades, naturopaths have emphasized the importance of a healthy colon, also called the human gut. Whether it’s with colonic irrigation, Dr. Jensen’s colema boards, herbal laxatives, probiotics, and coffee enemas—you name it—people have been trying to fix their guts forever.' 


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Women Who Ate This ‘Unhealthy’ Food Showed Improved Brain Function

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'The secret to improving your mood and brain health is in your gut, as unhealthy gut flora can impact your mental health, potentially leading to issues like anxiety, depression, autism and more. A recent proof-of-concept study found that women who regularly ate yogurt containing beneficial bacteria had altered brain function compared to those who did not consume probiotics.

Just as you have neurons in your brain, you also have neurons in your gut — including neurons that produce neurotransmitters like serotonin, which is also found in your brain and is linked to mood.'

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Learn How to Make Cultured Veggies at Home to Boost Your Immune System

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'Your digestive tract is probably the most underappreciated system of your body, often ignored until its screams of discontent become loud enough to grab your attention.

By the time your gut reaches this degree of disgruntlement, the problems have usually been developing for months — or years — and are challenging to resolve.

Instead of waiting for obvious signs of a problem, why not perform some regular “gut maintenance” that will lessen your chances of developing a problem in the first place?

Your gut is much more than a food processing tube — it houses about 85 percent of your immune system. This is in large part due to the 100 trillion bacteria that live there, both good and bad that can stimulate secretory IgA to nourish your immune response.'

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Probiotics Can Help You Stay Sexy

 

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'Are you looking for a natural way to stay sexy? Here’s a good idea: get enough probiotics. According to recent studies, probiotic-rich foods may give “sexiness” to people who consume them.
Dr. Joseph Mercola agrees and says: “One of the major results of eating a healthy diet like the one described in my nutrition plan is that you stimulate your beneficial gut bacteria to flourish naturally, and they secondarily perform the real ‘magic’ of restoring your health and also, perhaps, your ‘sexiness.’”

The Impact of Probiotics on Your Weight

When it comes to being sexy, one of the first things that come to people’s mind is weight loss. If you are struggling to lose weight, you must make sure that you have optimal gut flora. Studies say that the makeup of gut bacteria in lean people is different from those in obese people.'

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Fermented Probiotic Salsa Verde

 

'A few posts back I wrote about my Homemade Salsa Verde that has become a family favorite. As I have been continuing my goal of making everything homemade and healthy I decided to try a fermented version of the yummy salsa to add a health boost. It turned out amazing and so easy!!

All you need to do is make the tomatillo sauce following THIS recipe. Once you do that you blend in some whey (CLICK HERE to learn how to make your own). Put it on the counter, cover with a secured paper towel and let it sit for 2-4 days. Then you can put a sealed top and put in the fridge. That's it! So easy and full of probiotic benefits!'

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New Potent Prebiotic Found in Spruce Tree Bark

'Research from Finland's University of Turku has confirmed that a compound found in the bark of the Spruce tree and apparently other tree wood barks is a powerful and functional prebiotic that feeds our healthy gut bacteria.

The researchers determined that the compound, galactoglucomannan, is the primary component of the hemicellulose present in many softwood tree species. The researchers extracted galactoglucomannan from the Spruce tree (Picea abies), and then fed it to probiotic bacteria in the laboratory.'

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Probiotics Destroy Toxic Chemicals In Our Gut For Us

'It is an awesome fact of nature that we have trillions of organisms within our body – containing completely foreign DNA – some of which break down toxic chemicals that we humans have created to kill other things, but are now killing us, e.g. pesticides. Who are these strange helpers?

Bacteria!

Wait. Aren’t bacteria supposed to harm us? Aren’t they the enemy in the endless war against infection?'

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Gut Bacteria: Allowing You To Extract More Calories From The Same Amount of Food

'The presence of certain gut microbes is linked with better digestion and absorption of dietary fats, according to new research that suggests modifying gut bacteria could help to battle malnutrition and obesity.'

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Thriving Gut Bacteria Linked To Good Health

'There's no magic elixir for healthy aging, but here's one more thing to add to the list: good gut health.


A study published in the latest issue of Nature finds diet may be key to promoting diverse communities of beneficial bacteria in the guts of older people.


To evaluate this, researchers analyzed the microbiota, or gut bacteria, of 178 older folks, mostly in their 70s and 80s.


Some of the people were living in their own homes, and their diets were rich in fiber, fruits, vegetables, grains, poultry and fish.'




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Change Your Gut Flora and Lose Weight

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'Obese and lean individuals have different gut flora composition. The gut microbiota of mice and humans are similar, with Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes dominating. At this point it's not clear exactly which species are important in weight management. Some studies show reduced numbers of Bacteroidetes in obese subjects, while others point to lower levels of beneficial bacteria like Lactobacillus.' 




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Inflammatory bowel, ulcerative colitis linked to intestinal fungi

Editor's note: Eliminate antibiotics and load up on probiotics.

'Bacteria in the gut play a crucial role in human health, and imbalances in bacterial populations can contribute to many disorders. New research suggests that fungi, though not as common in the intestines as bacteria, may also play a role in causing and modulating disease.

The results could lead to new treatments for conditions such asinflammatory bowel disease,ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. An estimated 1.4 million Americans have some form of inflammatory bowel disease, which can cause inflammation, ulcers in the bowel,abdominal pain, diarrhea, bleeding, fatigue, weight loss and loss of appetite. An additional 30,000 cases are diagnosed annually.'

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More Research Shows that Bacteria are Beneficial, Not Harmful

'Over many, many years, bacteria has been scrutinized and persecuted for causing the development of thousands of diseases and ailments in people, but what do we actually know about these microbes that seem to cover everything at all times? 


Recent research shows that we actually don’t know a whole lot about when we look at the leaps and bounds we took to disinfect and cleanse nearly everything we own. In a research project entitled the Human Microbiome Project (much akin to the Human Genome Project of great relevance), researchers show that bacteria and microbial bodies are actually much more beneficial than they will ever be detrimental. '




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How Do Probiotics Support Immunity?

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Pasteur, Béchamp and Forbidden Medicine

 'Béchamp (doctor, biologist, chemist, and physicist) discovered microbes before Pasteur. After years of observation, he was able to prove that human beings create their own microbes in order to re-establish order and balance inside tissues and organs. Béchamp also discovered microzymas, the smallest living particles. These changed their shape – pleomorphism – and became microbes when a person’s health deteriorated. Germs were actually allies. He published many scientific papers to prove his theory.

Pasteur (chemist) used and falcified Béchamp’s results, publishing them under his own name with opposite conclusions.'

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The Hidden Cause of Psychiatric Disorders Almost No One Considers

'The Gut-Brain Connection From a proactive perspective, it's important to realize that you have the potential to take control over your health, including your mental or psychiatric health. Psychiatric conditions such as OCD are primarily believed to be the result of chemical dysfunction in your brain, or in some cases hereditary and therefore out of your control. 

Many fail to realize that a) your lifestyle can override genetic predispositions, and b) your lifestyle can be a major underlying cause of that chemical imbalance or dysfunction. So, there's plenty of reason to take a closer look at lifestyle factors such as diet and toxic exposures—whether you want to prevent a health condition, or treat it. 

 Some may object and say that a child hasn't had enough time to develop bad lifestyle habits, but when it comes to health problems related to the brain, the GUT is typically involved, and children are now increasingly BORN with damaged gut flora—courtesy of less than ideal lifestyle choices by the child's mother... In a very real sense, you have two brains: one inside your skull and one in your gut.' 


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Probiotics And Mitochondria: Bacteria Are Not "Other"

 

'The close symbiotic relationship between our bodies and intestinal bacteria is so profound that some scientists have suggested we be viewed as "metaorganisms."

Indeed, without these friendly bacteria we could not perform critical life-sustaining functions, such as:

• Counteract vitamin B12 deficiency


• Produce the B-group vitamins, as a whole


• Break down pesticides


• Break down xenobiotic hormones like BPA

Probiotics also perform at least 30 essential biological functions, with 13 viewable below: 


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Revolutionize Your Health with Probiotics

 'According to the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), probiotics are “live microorganisms” that are similar to the bacteria found in human intestines. In fact, they co-exist with us. Millions of bacteria reside on and inside the human body. Without beneficial bacteria, living on this plant would be practically impossible, as they keep the body’s ecosystem in balance.

Probiotics have been used as holistic medicine for thousands of years. They obviously were not in the capsule form that can be found in many stores today, but surely were and still are part of many cultures in the form of fermented foods. Probiotics are found in yogurt, kefir, kim chi, sauerkraut and many other fermented foods that are less commonly known.'

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Avoiding Artificial Sweeteners? They Are In The Drinking Water

'In recent tests, water samples from US water treatment plants discovered that the artificial sweetener sucralose (Splenda) is a widespread contaminant in both source water and treated water. Sucralose is a persistent contaminant as it is not broken down by the chemical water treatment process.

Previous research has shown that sucralose can destroy up to 50 percent of beneficial intestinal bacteria (probiotics), which are essential for general health and a strong immune system. Sucralose is chemically closer to DDT and Agent Orange than it is to sugar.'

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