Digestive Bacteria

Bacteria/MicroFlora: An Essential Part of Your Digestive System and Why It’s Important To Have a Healthy Balance of Good Bacteria In Your Body

The human body’s digestive system is a very complex and efficient system that could be consider the center of your health. You can probably tell if a person is healthy or not by looking at their digestive system.

Not only is the digestive system consider by many scientists and researchers as a “second brain”, but its functions are more than just processing of food.

Your digestive system is partly responsible for your immune system, how you feel on a daily basis, and is the first stop for most diseases to start.

In addition to all this, bacteria is a large part of your digestive system. You probably have about 500 to 1000 types of bacteria in your digestive system. Each of these types of bacteria have different strains. These bacteria have been with us since birth, and have coevolved with humans.

Some of these bacteria are permanently in your digestive system, others are just passing through. The bacteria collectively weigh about several pounds, and have the same energy requirements and metabolic activity as your liver.

These bacteria are the normal bacteria in your gut/intestinesthat help with your digestive processes. They also help with your immune system too.

Within this group of common bacteria, you also have the probiotic bacteria, which are beneficial to your health. On the flip side, you also have bacteria that is harmful to your health.

Microbes or bacteria in your body that causes illness are called pathogens. They could cause minor sickness to the more chronic type. It all depends on the type and strain of pathogen.

For example, the more virus oriented pathogens cause you extreme sickness. Because your body is efficient, it will cause you to vomit, or cause diarrhea, this just means your system is trying to flush out the bad pathogens.

It’s interesting to note, that E.coli is already present in your digestive system. However, you are fine because you have the other bacteria and your immune system that protects you from it.

Other types of pathogens , such as the weaker bacteria, in small populations are ok, but when they are able to reproduce , they can cause problems for your body.

How Does The Probiotic Bacteria Help You?

Here are some of the benefits that probiotic bacteria have on your health.

Metabolic Benefits

• Produce 5% – 10 % of all short-chain fatty acids (these fatty acids help build a stronger immune system, which means you get sick less)
• Breaks down and rebuilds essential hormones
• Breaks down bile acids
• Increase your metabolism and healthy weight

Digestive Benefits

• Helps stop diarrhea
• Prevents and helps with irritable bowel syndrome
• Digests proteins more easily
• Protects your gums and teeth

Nutritional Benefits

• Convert flavonoids to useful forms (easier for your body to absorb these excellent nutrients
• Produce essential fatty acids and short-chain fatty acids (the good fats you need)
• Increase absorption of minerals and vitamins
• Helps in protein digestion

Immune System Benefits

• Protects and modulates autoimmune diseases
• Breaks down and prevents bacterial toxins from forming
• Anticancer effects
• Prevents food poisoning
• Helps with allergies and asthma
• Prevents infection by producing natural antibiotics

Overall, knowing about the benefits of these bacteria for your health is the first step in getting your natural digestion system back on track. It’s important to know that not all bacteria is bad, and that there are some bacteria living in you that are crucial to your health.

Having a natural balance of the good and bad bacteria is extremely important.

Our modern day diet of processed foods and refined sugars don’t give us enough of the prebiotic substances that these good bacteria need, as such most people are out of balance when it comes to their internal micro flora.

Be Sure To Check Out the Healthy Prebiotic Supplement We Use To Balance Our Own Digestive System