Wednesday, 28 November 2012

A Probiotic Lifestyle for Immune Health

How does lifestyle effect your immune health?
By Natasha Trenev

From the moment you are born, you are slowly bombarded with things detrimental to your health. Have you ever taken antibiotics? Gobbled fast foods and sodas? Were you born by C-section and formula fed?

If you said yes to any of these, then your life is a biological disaster. With ninety percent of your body composed of bacterial cells, you are using and abusing the good bacteria that are the foundation of your health. And when they are all used up, you will know it. Urinary tract infections, heartburn, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, asthma, eczema, acne, are all on the bad health horizon.

The beneficial bacteria in your body keep the bad bacteria in balance so that your gastrointestinal (GI) tract remains in harmony and your body functions at its peak level.

Everyone wants good health because life is just a miserable existence without it.

Fortunately, it is easy to reverse that downward spiral of losing your beneficial bacteria AND your health. Take a daily probiotic supplement of beneficial probiotic bacteria containing super strains with proven human health benefits and refrigerated to provide you with a guaranteed potency through printed expiration date. This simple solution will dramatically change your life for the better.

To understand how critical beneficial bacteria are for a great lifestyle, just look at how you gain them. It begins with your birth. If you were fortunate, your birth was a natural vaginal delivery and you had a healthy mom who breast-fed. These microscopic bacteria were transferred to you from your mother during the delivery process and they set up your health patterns for the rest of your life. With breast feeding you swallow more beneficialprobiotic bacteria – from the milk, the milk ducts and from your mother’s skin.

As a newborn, your gastrointestinal tract was sterile, but within days, the beneficial microflora in your intestines started to grow. Now you have a gut microflora that is almost one hundred percent bifidobacteriathat wonderful beneficial bacteria that builds your immune system in the first few months of life.

If you were born by C-section, in an urban area and fed by formula, then your bacteria mixture is different. You have an assortment of microorganisms that come from the surroundings and that can include pathogenic and antibiotic-resistant organisms from the hospital room and staff. Not the best start to life when your immune system is struggling to develop.

Initially, babies have no immune system at all because they have no bacteria in their gut. It is only as the bacteria multiply in the GI tract that the immune system develops. And very few people realize that seventy percent of the immune system is located in the GI tract. Now you can see how those first bacteria are critical and how they control your overall well-being and future immunity to allergies and chronic infections.

You may have had a good start or maybe you didn’t. But even those who started out on the right foot experience daily events that knock out your beneficial bacteria:

Antibiotic therapy

Colonics

Radiation treatment

Chemotherapy

Air, food and water pollution

Household or workplace mold

Exposure to chemicals or fumes

Fasting

Poor sleep habits

Diets consisting of fast food and sodas

Alcohol and drugs

Stress

Traveling

Eating disorders

Aging

Illness or surgery

And as I said before, without beneficial bacteria, we get sick and tired. Do you remember what it was like to be free of illness? To not be groggy in the morning? Imagine a fit and younger you. Imagine feeling healthier and full of energy all the time.

Probiotic supplements can transform you back into optimal health by providing the beneficial bacteria that keep you healthy. If you want to take the challenge and transform yourself to a better you, now is the time for a probiotic lifestyle. You can truly look forward to feeling better and feeling younger.

http://sickofsickness.com/pages/articlepgs/lifestyle_immune_health.html