What Happened To Our Bodies Natural Probiotic Production?
There are many advances in our health care we can be thankful for today. Prior to the 1900's poor sanitary conditions including unfit sewage waste systems as well as contaminated food and water were assessed to be the main causes of death aside from natural causes. Once we began to understand more about the invisible world full of bacteria, things like indoor plumbing and the sterilization of medical instruments were established. As time has passed, we have become more and more conscience about our personal hygiene. This has resulted in a significant decrease in infectious diseases.
Yet, while there has been a great decrease in deaths due to infectious diseases, starting with the introduction of penicillin in the 1940's, new issues within the disease related causes of death cropped up. The causes of death went from infectious diseases to chronic disease conditions. The main influences of death are not from poor hygiene, they are dying from the decrease and elimination of something else.
And this is where our discussion turns to the endangered internal species as a result of antibiotics. The sad truth of this problem is - the destruction of bad bacteria by means of antibiotics also kills our amazing probiotic bacteria friends.
While antibiotics have helped us eliminate so many diseases, the constant abuse of these medications, which includes prescribing them for illnesses that are virus related, such as the flue or even the common cold. Virus related illnesses are those that antibiotics cannot help. Instead, they simply kill off both good and bad bacteria inside your intestinal tract without any rhyme or reason.
With the misuse of antibiotics comes the introduction of the antibiotic resistant bacteria. This has only introduced more problems as more powerful antibiotics are created with the unfortunate results of the super antibiotic-resistant bug just keeps getting worse.
So, where does this leave us? What is the solution?
It is not a secret that both bad and good bacteria are destroyed when taking these medications. So, why is it that along with our prescriptions for antibiotics, we are not then prescribed with probiotics to replace what has been lost through antibiotics?
Although antibiotics have really reeked havoc on good bacterial growth, we have added to their damage by our more modern lifestyles. Fast food, soda, diet products, processed foods and the total lack of eating well-balanced meals are also to blame. We are living in a world of convenience which is running at a very fast pace. This causes a great deal of stress, lack of proper amounts of sleep, emotional distress and so forth. Our bodies are simply bombarded day in and day out. Our factory of health is exhausted. And we have only ourselves to blame.
How do we prevent our good bacteria from becoming part of an internal extinct species? The answer is simple.
Helping our intestinal tract is just a matter of introducing the probiotics our bodies have lost and continue to lose daily. It's as easy as eating good unprocessed foods, organic fruits and vegetables if we can afford and acquire them. We can also add them by way of probiotic powders, probiotic liquids and probiotic supplements. In the next article I'll be talking about some of the more common foods that we can buy to encourage our healthy probiotic bacteria to grow and outnumber the bad bacteria.
