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Your Amazing
Ecosystem Within Your Body If you experience a lot of heart burn or chest burning after eating or for long periods after eating you can be sure your ecosystem is damaged and needs repair! You may not know that YOU ARE AN ECOSYSTEM and your ecosystem is in as much danger as our world ecosystem, from all the medications, pesticides, and environmental pollution ingested, lotions and potions slathered on and/or inhaled. Your body houses this unique balanced ecosystem beginning with the stomach then the miles of large and small intestine in charge of distributing the nutrients to nourish your organs. Residing in that ecosystem is more than 400 species of bacteria. Bacterium isn't always bad! These bacterial colonies function in harmony with one another and if either is out of balance your system is going to go awry at some point in time. That ecosystem is made up of three main types of friendly bacterium: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifido-bacterium bifidum and Lactobacillus bulgaricus. Acidophilus works in the small intestine. Bifidus predominates in the large intestine and bulgaricus is a transient bacterium that passes through the entire intestinal tract. These bacteria exist outside the body as well but not in the ordinary places you would expect These bacterium are vital to your health and if you have put into your ecosystem an antibiotic, anti-inflammatories (advil, aspirin, motrin, aleve, etc.) or chlorinated products ingested or bathed in, you have killed both friendly and unfriendly bacteria as well as causing mutated bacteria that can harm…You have set up an unbalanced ecosystem. If you eat mostly fast foods, prepackaged, processed foods your digestive tract can be severely damaged and lacking the balance it requires to keep you healthy! Your stomach and intestines make up 75% to 80% of your Immune System and when weak and malfunctioning opens you to all kinds of illness, disease and organ failure! One of many problems caused from taking antibiotics is a yeast infection. No fun, and can be dangerous if left to run amok in the body. Another problem is chronic diarrhea. In addition to antibiotics you
are being bombarded with food additives, chlorinated
water and medications that can upset the balance of
that ecosystem flora. Hormonal drugs, such as birth
control pills and cortisone are especially
detrimental to the body's ecosystem. Your body's
immune system is so strong and fights so hard to
stay healthy that you may not notice the imbalance
for years but it will catch up to you eventually… One way of balancing out the ecosystem in your body is with Probiotics, which improve liver and circulatory functions, improve resistance to allergies and decrease the presence of yeast infections. Probiotics are those foods and supplement that enhance and restore the helpful bacteria. Small amounts are found in foods like yogurt and fermented Dairy products. Larger amounts are found in probiotic supplements found in your local health food store or Acidophilus Milk in the dairy case. If you have encountered any of the aforementioned, antibiotics, chlorinated water (chlorine by products exist in over-the-counter bottled water as well), hormones, birth control pills, cortisone or anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs, tylenol, advil, ibuprofen, aspirin, etc.) you need to get your ecosystem back into balance now before other systems start to break down. You say, "but I'm not ill."
No, you may not feel as if you are now but if you
frequently catch colds, have fever blisters, vaginal/penile
or rectal itching, diarrhea either chronic or
intermittent, dry skin, allergies or a host of other
small annoying symptoms you could very well be on
your way to becoming more seriously ill! To balance your systems talk to your local health food store nutritionists to get the proper probiotics for you. Or do like I do and take Probiotics Plus from Wayne Garlands' arsenal of nutrients and supplements. My wish is for you to have a
long life and part of that requires a Healthy
ecosystem!
***Lena Sanchez a happy retired 74 year old Medical Office
Nurse/Administrator/Consultant took charge of
her health in 1992 and is committed to helping
others do the same…
Editor of "Ask Lena Health Q & A weekly newsletter" and alternative
health consultant who can guide you to quality of life versus
manmade drug loss of life! Understand that statement by going to >
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