| The number one medication prescribed by doctors | | | | and other foreign invaders have been killed by the |
| today are antibiotics. They are commonly prescribed | | | | probiotics, it is time to build and strengthen their |
| everyday to help resolve both life threatening | | | | numbers and allow the good bacteria to multiple in |
| infections as well as minor cuts and scraps. There is | | | | healthy circumstances. Again a high strength probiotic |
| no doubt that antibiotics have saved many lives since | | | | is crucial in building the numbers and helping the other |
| their discovery but the over prescribing of them in | | | | populations survive. During this time it can also be |
| modern medicine has now led the bacteria they are | | | | useful to use a prebiotic powder, which is a powder |
| designed to work against to strengthen and become | | | | that helps extend the life of the probiotics and feed |
| more powerful and even resisting the types of | | | | them, keeping them alive, active and healthy for longer |
| antibiotics designed to kill them. | | | | within your gut walls. |
| Through the constant prescribing of antibiotics, these | | | | 3. Maintain the beneficial bacteria - once the good |
| drugs kill more than the "bad" bacteria in the body - | | | | bacteria has been re-established and has strengthen |
| they also wipe out the good bacteria needed to | | | | their numbers for good healthy and vitality, it is |
| optimum health, digestive function and bowel habits. | | | | important to maintain their health and numbers. These |
| The good bacteria is designed to keep us healthy and | | | | good bacteria are a crucial line of defence for the |
| works to produce a number of different vitamins and | | | | immune system, as they attack any foreign bacteria or |
| fatty acids to allow the body to work in harmony. Due | | | | microbe that comes their way, thus keeping you |
| to the sweeping affects of antibiotics in the gut many | | | | healthy for longer. To strengthen this stage of bacterial |
| people are left with infections such as thrush (Candida | | | | health, it is important to include lots of fibre, both soluble |
| albicans) in the digestive tract as these types of fungi | | | | and insoluble fibre into the diet. Fibre help the bacteria |
| flourish when the bacteria used to control them is | | | | live longer as it feeds them and provides life support |
| wiped out. | | | | mechanisms to help keep the chain alive. Soluble fibre |
| If you have recently had antibiotics or currently having | | | | dissolves in water and becomes slimy thus helping to |
| antibiotic therapy, here are three key steps to help you | | | | protect the mucus coverings that line the digestive |
| re-establish a state of true bacterial health within your | | | | tract. |
| gut. | | | | Probiotics have multiple uses inside the gut walls but |
| | | | much research is now showing their use beyond the |
| 1. Eradicate the bad - after taking antibiotics many | | | | gut and digestion. Improved bone health, absorption of |
| "bad" bacteria repopulate the gut quickly as well as | | | | nutrients, production of vitamin K, some B vitamins and |
| fungi's and yeasts. These invade the digestive tract | | | | fatty acids are showing them useful for bone health. |
| causing wind, bloating, gas, and in some cases | | | | Cardiovascular health is another aspect where |
| diarrhoea or constipation. At this stage it is important to | | | | probiotics are proving invaluable showing a reduction in |
| take a probiotic with a high lactobacillus strain to | | | | cholesterol in people with diagnosed high cholesterol |
| re-establish healthy gut flora and fight off the bad | | | | levels. These are just some areas where we know |
| bacteria that have repopulated the gut since the | | | | that probiotics are showing a new generation of health |
| antibiotics. | | | | giving properties. |
| 2. Re-populate the gut flora - once the bad bacteria | | | | |