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Most people wouldn’t think twice about how an unhealthy gut could actually be contributing to their chronic and unrelenting health challenges. Many individuals would naturally assume that everything is working smoothly as long as they can eat, digest and eliminate on a regular basis. But little do they know, the majority of common chronic health problems facing our population have deep-seated roots in an unhealthy and unbalanced gut bacteria.
Your digestive system plays a significant role in your overall health and the function of both your immune and nervous systems. In fact, your gut neurotransmitters are vital for your wellbeing, because the messages that they send/receive from your brain are crucial for your body’s physiological functions.
Our gut is home to a diverse community of over 100 trillion microbial cells which influence our physiology, metabolic function, nutrition as well as our immune capabilities…
Consider this: there is more microbial cells in your gut than all of the cells in your body combined! And because of this, good gut health is the key to ensuring that these bacteria do their job is to maintain a balance between both the good bacteria (probiotics) and the bad. In numerous studies, it has been proven that excellent gut health/function is critical in helping you to remain free of disease. And thankfully you can influence this process with the help of some smart supplementation… which we’ll get to in just a moment.
In recent years, medical literature is beginning to explode with new data pointing towards imbalances in your gut and the direct connection with many autoimmune, metabolic and chronic diseases. Doctors from Yale, Harvard, MIT are on record saying they believe disease begins in the gut!
Think about your own health for a moment: have you noticed any of the following problems?
If you can answer “yes” to any (or even all!) of the above symptoms, gut health issues may be a serious problem for you like they are for countless others. The bottom line is there is a specific ratio of good bacteria to bad bacteria that ensures optimal health. With our Standard American Diet and deadly environmental toxins, our population is suffering from a catastrophic gut imbalance. There are several critical factor playing a role in our gut dysfunction…here are some of the biggest contributing factors:
It’s obvious that if you don’t keep with a super clean diet, filter your water and live in a bubble, it’s pretty much a given that your gut bacteria ratio will suffer unless you take a proactive approach to get things right.
The use of probiotics may help you avoid a lot of these health issues and get you on the road towards recovery. It’s important to note that use of probiotics is not alternative medicine, and actually far from it. It’s now reached mainstream and top medical researchers across the globe are discovering just how important probiotics are in the maintenance of overall health and wellbeing.
The question to ask yourself is this…
Can you really afford not to take a look at your gut health?
Research studies continue to show the various ways that probiotics can influence health. In a recent study presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association, clinicians showed that just two daily doses of a probiotic can dramatically improve your gut health. In those tested, the use of daily probiotics lowered bad cholesterol by nearly 12%, and reduced both the total and saturated cholesterol (which contribute to the hardening of arteries) in testers. Another recent study published in Brain, Behavior and Immunity showed the direct connection between normal gut bacteria and neurological function, as probiotics were able to have a positive effect on mood in just 4 weeks.
The important take away from all this is gut health appears to be the next big thing in medicine and health care. It’s become such an important discussion that research teams from the National Institute for Health have worked to make it their primary focus
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