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Why you need bacteria in your colon
Bacteria in your colon are referred to by many different names –
probiotics, good or bad bacteria, beneficial bacteria, acidophilus, disbiosis,
micro flora, proflora. friendly flora, and unfriendly bacteria.
I simple use good and bad bacteria to refer to all the bacteria that
exist in the small intestine and your colon.
Your colon has both good and bad bacteria. The good bacteria maintain
the health of your colon by keeping the bad bacteria from multiplying
and reducing constipation.
Most people have bad bacteria as the dominant condition in their colon.
You can see this by the illnesses that exist throughout the world. Most
people later in their life suffer from diseases that resulted from colon
neglect and abuse.
Bad bacteria multiples when you,
* Consume poisons such as pollution, pesticides, food additives such
as preservatives, coloring, so on.
* Drink alcohol
* Eat processed foods
* Have excess anxiety
* Lack fiber in your diet
* Use birth control pills
* Use drugstore laxative
* Use drugs and medication
Good bacteria in your colon consists of hundred of species of bacteria.
The good bacteria are most active in a pH of 5.9 to 6.9- an acidic environment.
This makes for a healthy colon.
Your colon serves as a home for the good bacteria, which ferment specific
carbohydrates, which in turn keep your colon environment slightly acidic.
The acid environment favors the good bacteria and keeps the bad bacteria
and pathogens from multiplying.
The bad bacteria create an alkaline environment and are most active in
a pH of 7.1 to 7.9
Again, the good bacteria creates an acidic environment and are most active
in a pH of 5.9 to 6.9
Acidophilus and Bifidus are the main good bacteria that exist in your
colon. The ascending colon, on the right side of your abdomen area, has
the most bacteria. The quantity of bacteria becomes less in the transverse
colon and lesser in the descending colon. Eventually, little bacteria
is found in the sigmoid and rectum.
When good beneficial bacteria is dominant, in your colon, it prevents
the spread of disease from various organisms – parasites, bacteria,
viruses, fungi. The specific organisms
Shigella, salmonella, viruses, encephalitis, protozoan, amebas, staph,
herpes, flu, cold viruses, comphylobacter, and CMV,
are the ones that creates killer diseases such as dysentery, blood poisoning,
meningitis, pneumonia, influenza and encephalitis
The good bacteria keep these organisms in the minority, thus preventing
them from multiplying, getting into the blood, and into the different
body organs. They do this by their antibiotic like secretions, lactic
acid production, and other secretions, which keep their environment acidic.
The good bacteria live and thrive on carbohydrates. When your body has
good digestion and little carbohydrates reach your colon, the good bacteria
population decreases and the bad bacteria become dominant.
Good bacteria need to be fed to keep it dominant in your colon. If there
are any good bacteria left in your colon, then by feeding them, you can
get them to multiply. If there are not any good bacteria in your colon,
then you cannot reestablish the good bacteria by eating specific carbohydrate
foods. To reestablish good bacteria, under this condition, you must do
a flora enema.
In his book, Acidophilus and Colon Health, 1999, David Webster, also
says,
“Indicators of a healthy colon flora are a soft but well-formed
stool, with amber color and little or no odor, and that floats in water
most of the time. When the stools are dry, dark brown, too solidly formed
or too loose, and especially if there is a putrid odor, these are clear
indicators of a putrefactive, alkaline-producing colon flora. Chronic
constipation, diarrhea, and irritable bowel syndrome are often eliminated
when your colon is restored and maintained at a slightly acid pH.”
In his research, Webster found that feeding the remaining good bacteria
edible lactose whey rejuvenates the good bacteria in your colon. By drinking
2 – 5 tablespoons or more each day in a cup of distilled water enough
lactose can reach your colon to feed the good bacteria. Webster recommends
doing this for 30 days. After this period you can check your stools to
see if you have reactivated you good bacteria
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