Quit Your Belly Aching Part 2

The War Within – Part one

We are beginning to get to the bottom of things.
Specifically, our own bottoms. We live in a society where gastrointestinal illness and disease is soaring to new limits. From ulcers, to Irritable Bowel Syndrome, to Indigestion and Gas our joy of life and vitality have gone down the toilet.

But all is not lost. Your beautiful brilliant body has some simple solutions that may turn this around.

If we could take a microscopic look inside your large intestine would find a teeny war with gigantic consequence. Your body has its own little army fighting valiantly for your well-being. An army of bacteria.

Yes! BACTERIA! Truly, they are a force to be reckoned with. Just the word can send shudders up your spine. Small, but able in the past to bring a population to its knees, how often we live in fear of the dreaded “bacteria”. We scrub, disinfect and sanitize.

But to no avail, we are simply outnumbered. The human body is made up of an estimated 100 trillion bacterial cells fromat least 500 species, not including viruses and fungi. The bacteria in your gutt out number all the rest of the cells in your body, 10 to one, or about 3 pounds worth.
There are more bacteria in your body than people on this planet.

However, not all gutt bacteria are created equal.
There is a “good” bacteria naturally occurring in the large intestine. These have been called “friendly flora”, or probiotic.
“Pro” meaning “for”; “bio” meaning “life”. And pro-life they are!

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