Monday, March 18, 2013

 GLOBAL MEDICINE HUNTER News

Dr. Meg Jordan

mjordan@ciis.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

San Francisco)---Food microbiologists are among my favorite medicine hunters. They track the tiniest critters in your gut that are responsible for a dozen important functions in the body--way beyond simple digestion of your food.

Dr. Joyce Stratton of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specalizes specializes in research with foodborne pathogens such as Campylobacter, Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes.

When these critters aren't held in check by their most positive counterparts, trouble ensues for your GI tract, and serious illness can develop. One outbreak of E. coli sent 17 school kids to the hospitals after munching on strawberries that were contaminated.

Your best defense against food-borne pathogens is cooking, washing and hygienic farm practices in which workers don't relieve themselves in the fields, and animal waste doesn't cross paths with produce.

Probiotics, sometimes called "friendly bacteria," are beneficial microorganisms that naturally inhabit the human digestive system. You already have billions of bacteria living in your gut. Some are harmful (pathogenic), but many are beneficial. Keeping a balance between the good and the bad bacterial is critical to maintaining good health.

Probiotics help keep bad bacteria and yeast from growing in your intestinal tract, and confer many other proven benefits to you, including vitamin production and keeping your immune system healthy.

The following list reveals the positive benefits of probiotics, many of which most people are unaware. From assisting your liver with its 300-plus functions to enhancing your blood lipid profile, the friendly positive critters (amounting to almost 2-3 lbs in your gut!) should be warmly welcomed by you. Consider taking a high quality probiotic every day or consuming probiotic-rich kefir and yogurt. And refrain from yogurt that has added sugars or even sugar alcohols (Xylitol) since that defeats the whole reason you want these bacteria in your gut in the first place.

· Control Digestive Problems

· Enhances Weight Loss & Weight Maintenance Programs

· Suppress Bad Bacteria

· Produce natural antibiotic-like substances

· Inhibit Tumors and Carcinogenesis

· Fight yeast and fungal infections

· Enhance calcium metabolism

· Improve Immune Function

· Reduce cholesterol in the blood

· Produce B vitamins naturally

· Reduces Skin Problems

· Help With Liver Function

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