What Is Good Bacteria?

bacteriaRecently termed probiotics or “good bacteria” are necessary to our health and well being. These are used to preserve dairy products such as milk and yogurts and recently were discovered to help our digestive system to work better.

It is particularly important to take a course of probiotics or live bacteria when you have been on a course of anti biotic’s to give your digestive system a kick start. Due to the fact that this is what antibiotic’s do kill bacteria and germs to clear up any infections in our bodies. The problem being of course they can not tell which are good and which are bad bacteria so they all get severely depleted.

So why do we need this good bacteria?

The way our bodies digest food is basically that the upper intestine digests the easy to break down foods we eat and takes out the nourishment it needs then passes everything else on to the lower intestine or colon. While in here certain types of food while being broken down by the enzymes that exist there will produce bacteria these are fundamental to our health and a healthy lower intestine or colon will hold 75% of the bodies immune system. Of which the good bacteria is a part of.

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