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The benefits of Probiotics were discovered many years ago, but they have only recently gained widespread attention and acceptance. They are have become more accessible in recent years, popping up in a variety of food products from yogurt to baby formula.

Adding probiotics to your diet is easy, and it has the potential to greatly improve your health.

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What Are Probiotic?
Probiotics are live bacteria that are included in food and supplements.  These so-called "friendly bacteria" live in the body in the digestive tract, namely the intestines.

Probiotics come from mostly dairy foods like yogurt and fermented soy and grains. You may have heard about bifidus regularis on yogurt commercials, or lactobacillus. They are found as live cultures in dairy and do all sorts of neat and positive things.

Benefits of Probiotics:
One positive effect of Probiotics is on gastrointenstinal tract. The intestines play a large role in your health. It is here that food is broken down even further and absorbed through the walls of the intestines to be carried to other parts of the body. It is also here that that undigested red meat they talk about in the news makes its home. When the intestines aren?t functioning well, the rest of your body will show it. Toxins in the body can come to rest in the intestines and also the liver, a filtering organ. Free radicals are one of these types of toxins that can lead to organ damage and illnesses such as cancer and the like.

Youthful Effects of Probiotics:
For one, probiotics help you digest your food better. Better digestion means a cleaner colon that is devoid of the toxins that can make us sick and look years older. Without diarrhea or constipation, you feel a lot better and less bloated as you go about your day. Probiotics also help manufacture some of the vitamins that we need each day for cellular health: vitamin K (potassium) and the B vitamins - specifically B12.

Probiotics also boost your immune system. This means you fight disease better. When none of those nasty bad bacteria and viruses can get in, your body can make the most of the antioxidants found in your food to fight aging: clear up your skin, strengthen your nails and nourish hair follicles.

These same bacteria can also help the liver. Naturally, the liver cleanses the blood, removing harmful toxins. When the liver gets overloaded by environmental toxins, stress and poor lifestyle choices, it shows on the skin (liver spots, moles, acne and the like). Probiotics help the liver to do its job more efficiently and clear your skin.

When your body can absorb and use all the nutrients from food, you gain energy. Also, you are less hungry as they can help fight cravings for sugar and fat. That can aid in weight-loss programs.

Probiotic bacteria live in the body in the intestinal tract. They can be overwhelmed by bad bacteria if we are not careful. Ingest as many probiotics as you can to tip the balance of the scale in your favor.

Incorporating Probiotics Into Your Diet:
Yogurt is one of the most recognizable sources of probiotics.  It naturally contains a substantial amount of these friendly bacteria.  Eating a cup of yogurt with live and active cultures (be sure to read the label) each day with breakfast and as a snack provides calcium and also probiotic bacteria. 

Yogurt is not the only dairy product that contains probiotics.

Regularly eating yogurt, aged cheeses and/or probiotic milk also establishes these good bacteria in your system so they are already there when needed. 

Others include kefir, acidophilus milk and buttermilk.  Dairy products provide a good environment for friendly bacteria, protecting them from acid and bile.  Dairy foods also contain prebiotics, which are compounds that stimulate the growth and activity of probiotics.

Fermented vegetables are also good sources of probiotics.  Some examples of these include sauerkraut, kimchi, and curtido.  Salted gherkins and brine-cured olives contain lots of beneficial bacteria as well.  Those that are sold commercially, however, often go through processes that kill the bacteria in them.  These processes include pasteurization and the addition of preservatives such as sodium benzoate.

Probiotic juices are also beginning to show up in grocery stores.  They contain bacteria that have been shown to promote immunity and aid in digestion.  These bacteria are also believed to be beneficial for sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Food manufacturers have begun to add probiotics to a number of foods that do not naturally contain them.  These include cereals, chocolate bars, and dairy drinks.  In some countries a variety of probiotic beverages are on the market, and there is even a brand of probiotic ice cream.  With these options becoming available in more and more places, it is becoming much easier to include probiotics in our diets.

As long as your body tolerates these food choices it can?t hurt to give your digestive system a healthy dose of the good stuff.

If none of the above mentioned foods appeal to you or if you are following a detox or colon cleansing program, try taking probiotic supplements. 

The exact amount of probiotics needed each day is not well known but even a small amount can protect you from intestinal troubles and prevent certain conditions like diarrhea and yeast infections. 

Many supplements contain billions of beneficial bacterial cultures in each pill while the amount you get from food is unknown.

Our Double Strength Probiotic Complex with Acidophilus contains a unique combination of several key microorganisms designed to support and maintain the gastrointestinal tract?s microflora and is part of The Cleanse21? Therapeutic Detox Program. Our Double Strength Probiotic Complex with Acidophilus utilizes freeze dried cultures and is shelf stable.



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The statements regarding The Body Focus? Essentials Nutritional Supplements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These supplements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. All supplements are made in the USA.

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