Probiotics for gut health have been very popular among consumers for more than 30 years now.. Probiotics are popular for many reasons. Research has shown all sorts of benefits to using probiotic strains, as they help with immune function by allowing improved production of white blood cells. They help people who are constipated to have healthier bowel movements sometimes. Some people have claimed to have improved digestion with the use of probiotics, as probiotics aid in intestinal absorption in both the small and large intestines. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride has an entire section on probiotics for gut health in her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome. Clearly, probiotics for gut health play an important role in overall wellness. However, many patients mistakenly believe that they need to take a probiotic regularly because it has helped them with so many of their symptoms.
Probiotics are claimed to help reduce or eliminate fungal infections in the lungs, colon, and vagina. Fungus, mold, yeast, and candida tend to accumulate most where it is warm, wet, and dark, and so this is why these areas are favorites. Auto-immune disease takes place when people have an infection—usually a fungal infection and/or other infections—that has caused a drastic, chronic imbalance in healthy gut flora.
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On rare occasions, when I have a patient who struggles with changing their diet, they may need a probiotic. They may feel better when they are able to eliminate their fecal material more easily and give their colon a break from all of the sugar that they have been eating. Interestingly, in clinical practice, the majority of the time the use of a probiotic is only reserved for the novice or the health care provider that really does not know how to diagnose and treat the underlying causes of their patient’s health concerns. Many health care providers are unaware of all of the research that has been done on herbs and nutrients such as St. John’s Wort, Feverfew, Wormwood, Black Walnut Hull,
Garlic, Kapricidins and other caprylates coming from coconuts or castor beans, calcium, calcium kaprilate, high dose vitamin C, Zymex, which is a dark moldy substance coming from peet moss and tillandsia and dried pea vine juice, and collinsonia with enzymes, cloves, basil, ginger, anise, andrographis, Philodendron stem bark, organo, goldenseal, echinacea, uva ursi, olive leaf, coptis, and a large variety of other herbal compounds that have been shown to be far more effective at establishing healthy gut flora than any probiotic ever has.
At Triad Of Health Family Healing Center, we have our Triad Of Health therapies that we are able to use to naturally establish healthy gut flora. Often times we are able to do this without the use of herbs or nutrition. Sometimes we do not even need to use homeopathy to establish healthy gut flora. Why? Because our therapies are incredibly specific and effective, and they involve lifestyle changes that allow the corrections made to last. We also have educational programs that allow people to understand our therapies, how they work, and what they need to do to continue to make fast and permanent improvements to their health.
What is the problem with probiotics? (Please continue to read…)
When I examine my patients, the vast majority of them have digestive tracts that are too alkaline, not too acidic. There is this strange rumor going around that is very popular that says that we are all too acidic and that when we become alkaline, we become healthier. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the exact opposite is most commonly the case. Most of my patient population that I have examined for more than 10 years is far too alkaline. Probiotics are alkaline. When probiotics are given to a person with an excessively alkaline digestive tract that already has an active candida infection, the person will often get worse because the alkaline probiotic causes them to become more alkaline. An alkaline environment is what leads to many severe candida infections that then lead to cancer. This is why you may notice that sometimes a very sick elderly person (or even a young person) has terrible breath. Bad breath or toe fungus is the sign of a systemic fungal infection. The toe fungus and bad breath are especially common in diabetics.
