
Revelations about your colon
Of all the considerations one might
embrace for obtaining ultimate health,
incorporating healthy intestinal
micro-flora is the most overlooked; yet,
so essential that it overshadows the
ultimate benefits of all the other
principles combined, for the body will
simply not reach maximum health without
its full complement of microbiology. If
that occurs an overgrowth of candida
yeast can occur.
Bacteria are usually single cell
microorganisms, found in a variety of
forms ... some good ... some bad ...
some ugly. Most bacteria are either
free-living saprophytes, organisms
living on and bringing about the
decomposition of dead or decaying
organic matter (good), or parasites ,
many of which can and do cause disease
(bad and ugly). The tiny microscopic
life forms we know as microorganisms are
foundational to every physical thing on
earth.
A healthy intestinal tract (one rich
with the proper bacteria) has over 400
different species of microorganisms
living there. They represent
approximately two pounds of your body
weight. Very few are able to survive in
the stomach, (as few as 10-100 organisms
per milliliter of stomach content),
because of the acid environment present
there. However, in the large intestine,
as many as ONE TRILLION organisms per
milliliter are common. (ref: Modern
Nutrition in Health and Disease,
Golden).
One of the least understood bodily
functions takes place in our intestinal
tract. This is the process of extraction
of nutrients in the food mass as it
progresses through both the small and
large intestine (colon), and the process
of elimination of unwanted, dangerous
toxic materials. A healthy intestine
leads to good bowel movements, healthy
vitamin and hormone production, and a
long and growing list of other important
health benefits. However, the colon of
most civilized Westerners is, as
revealed by the astonishing findings of
autopsies, colonics, surgeries and
X-rays, the most abused--and most
abusing--organ in the body.
Intestines are, by their very nature,
cesspools of gooky putrefaction. A quick
look inside would convince anyone of
that fact. According to Professor Ehret
in his Mucusless Diet Healing System,
the average person carries around as
much as ten pounds of uneliminated feces
in their bowels. These are the
undigested substances, some from your
last few meals, but more the
accumulations from childhood onward,
which do not pass in your regular bowel
movements. This is "stuff" that
shouldn't be there, the life-snuffing
glue that poisons every part of your
body, and which is so difficult to
remove.
Benefits of Good Bacteria
and Candida Yeast
*Acidifies the Colon: The ideal pH of
the colon is between 6.7 and 6.9. Acetic
and Lactic Acids are some of the
by-products that assist in doing this.
This environment inhibits the growth of
harmful bacteria, such as salmonella
(causes food poisoning), shigella
(causes diarrhea), and E-coli (causes
intestinal disease and kidney failure).
Good bacteria also produce a volatile
fatty acid, which, along with the other
acids, make it very difficult for fungus
and candida yeast (candida) to survive.
*Normalizes Bowel Movements: Good
bacteria can inhibit diarrhea, correct
constipation, and decrease the time it
takes for waste products (the result of
decomposition) to move through the
digestive system.
*Strengthens the Immune System: Good
bacteria assists in stimulating the
formation of antibodies which protect
our bodies against infectious disease.
The overwhelming majority of all immune
system organisms (70-80%) are located in
the intestinal wall. To be most
effective, the good bacteria have to be
present in abundance.
*Assists in Vitamin Production: Good
bacteria aids in the production of the
B-complex vitamins, and also Vitamin K,
necessary for a healthy liver, for blood
clotting, and for new bone formation.
Furthermore, the processing and
absorption of vitamins (vitamin
synthesis) is the responsibility of
intestinal bacteria.
*Assists Enzyme Production: Good
bacteria assists in the production of
Lactase, the enzyme necessary to digest
milk and other dairy products. Without
this enzyme, milk allergies are certain
to occur.
*Removes Cancer-Causing Elements: Good
bacteria assists in the de-activating of
various cancer-causing compounds
produced by other organisms, or from
certain foods.
*Assists Cholesterol Reduction: Good
bacterial flora, combined with a high
fiber diet, can lower cholesterol
levels, substantially, and even improve
fat digestion by providing more bile
acids.
*Eliminate Gas Problems: Sufficient good
bacteria in the colon eliminates bowel
gas, and sweetens the breath. Halitosis
is frequently caused when unfriendly
(bad) bacteria dominate in the colon and
produce foul smelling waste. These
gasses can be expelled, or reabsorbed
into the bloodstream, and carried to the
lung to be exhaled. All the breath mints
in the world won't correct bad breath
caused by bowel problems.
*Additional Benefits: Proper "body
ecology" has been demonstrated to
produce improvement in virtually any and
every function of the body, e.g.
Digestive Organs, Heart and Blood
Vessels, Nervous System, Eyes, Skin,
Muscles and Joints, and Genito-Urinary
and Reproductive Organs. A lower blood
pressure can be the result of lowered
cholesterol. Improved Digestion and
Nutrient Assimilation can result in
increased energy, and healthy weight
gain (for obvious reasons), etc. Without
this natural defense guarding against
pathogenic organisms, we become
susceptible to a wide range of health
problems which affects all other bodily
processes.
Without this natural defense guarding
against pathogenic organisms, we become
susceptible to a wide range of health
problems which affects all other bodily
processes. Candida Yeast is just
one of these.
The Need for the best Probiotics
The word "probiotic" is a modern term
which means just the opposite of
"anti-biotic" or "anti-microbial", which
mean toxic or death. The latter
represents the typical, failed
philosophy of modern science, being
that, if you "kill" disease", health
will remain. This philosophy fails to
understand that, when you are diseased,
health is gone, and even if the disease
is "killed", the cause of the disease
would still be present. The former
stands on ancient and solid ground
against all of modern medicine's efforts
to cure disease by warfare.
It contends that if the good bacteria is
removed (killed), the disease-oriented
microbiology will take over.
Time was, because of nutrient-rich soil,
clean water, organic fertilizers,
abundant, beneficial insects and
micro-flora, it was possible to consume
the now-elusive "healthy diet", and be
able to maintain, quite naturally, a
healthy, balanced intestinal flora
equilibrium. Basically, the power to
stay well was there.
No one reading this has ever lived in a
perfect world, but it can be well-argued
that it has never been more imperfect
than it is now. Today, soil depletion,
insecticide-herbicide-chemically
fertilized farms, cooked, processed,
chemical-laden foods, anti-microbial
soaps, antiseptics, the overuse of
antibiotics, irradiation, chlorinated
drinking water, widespread use of birth
control pills, immunosuppressant drugs,
chemotherapy and much more, all conspire
to destroy what we may call "the body
ecology".
We have come to the point where packaged
mixes and dinners, fast served,
processed foods, sugar-laden drinks, and
even vitamins and supplements are the
things people call "food".
When processed, incomplete foods are
consumed regularly, the microbiology
dissolves and adjusts downward to the
level and quality of the available
material. Unfortunately, as modern
agricultural methods continues to use
chemistry on an ever-increasing basis,
the food which is produced will continue
to become less of a substrate for
healthy microbiology.
Could this be why America is now rated
37th in the world as a healthy nation by
the World Health Organization, just
ahead of Slovenia and Cuba, and 53rd in
the world in life expectancy, behind
Libya and Jamaica?
Many out there would have you believe
that illness and disease are arbitrary,
and have no discernable cause, or that
they are inherited.
We at Greenwood Health believe that:
"Just as the soil from which our food
comes is, so also is the "landscape" of
our bodies.
For true health to exist in either
environment (soil or body), the
microbiology must be rich and healthy.
If the soil isn't rich in healthy,
life-supporting microflora, it will
abound with the microbiology of death.
If healthy microbiology is not a natural
complement of the food we eat, then we
must find a satisfactory way to provide
it, in order to avoid the inevitable,
disastrous results."
As Ann Wigmore, founder of the
world-famous Hippocrates Institute, and
renowned exponent for live food used to
say, "...eat live food to live, and dead
food to die".
The Current Probiotic Industry
Presently, there are dozens of companies
in the health industry marketing
so-called probiotic products, some very
much overpriced. This industry is still
in a fledgling state. Mostly it is
experimenting with a few popular
microorganisms commonly found in yogurt,
sauerkraut and soaked wheat.
Unfortunately, when you discontinue the
use of these, chiefly lactic acid
bacilli, they will not remain, and
benefits are gradually lost.
In nature, healthy conditions would
allow for multi-specied microorganisms
to be sustained indefinitely. Hundreds,
even thousands of species collaborate to
promote disease-free, nutrient-rich
plants. Expecting a microorganism to
survive without its many other
complimentary species is like asking a
fish to survive outside of water. The
body that consumes this
microbiologically-blessed food would
inherit these same beneficial
characteristics. But, how does one go
about, technologically speaking, to
reproduce the same, dynamic microfloral
characteristics found in paradigm
nature?
Is it possible to produce a probiotic
product capable of delivering the health
benefits to which we have alluded?
The answer is an emphatic YES!
But the inert-ingredient,
microbiologically dormant, "blend and
bottle" systems used today fall far
short of this ideal, and to us are
unsatisfactory. The foods used to "grow"
the probiotic microorganisms still
contain the ultimate potential for
spoilage, so their ability to transfer
healthy microflora to the system is
limited. This is called
"mono-culturing".
The standard microbial "buzz-words" of
the health industry today,
"Lacto-bacillus Acidophilus, Acidophilus
Bifidus" et. al. can be temporarily
beneficial but can guarantee no
long-term benefits. In some instances,
these singular cultures are blended
together by a process called
"micro-blending", in the hopes of
achieving broader benefits. An excellent
example of this is a product marketed by
a well-known physician who advertises
his new "probiotic" product by stating,
"Each caplet contains five carefully
chosen strains of healthy bacteria. Two
of these strains are in the Bifida
bacteria family, including B. longum and
B. bifidum. The other three are part of
the Lactobacillus family, including L.
acidophilus, L. casei, and L.
burglarious".
Sounds good, huh, however when different
microorganisms are thrown together, it
is impossible to know for sure how they
will interact.
There is a little known condition in
microbiology called "competitive
exclusion". For a microbiology to be
truly "competitively exclusive" it must
contain a complete system of
interactive, interdependent
microorganisms.
This sort of microbiology is completely
defensive and is capable of maintaining
itself even under long-term storage
conditions.
"Competitively exclusive" also assures
the organisms cannot be mutated or
overwhelmed by unfriendly
microorganisms.
When ingested with food, assimilation
and nutrient absorption are enhanced and
colonization begins immediately to
transform the entire digestive system.
A person starting to use such a product
soon discovers that elimination is
dramatically enhanced. The fact that
laxatives may be altogether eliminated
is one of the benefits of introducing
healthy microbiology into the system.
When increased elimination is desired,
one can simply take more of the product
and easily achieve the desired result.
Many so-called "probiotics" today are
maintained under refrigeration. This is
an un-natural condition at best and
suggests that the product has the
potential for spoilage. Other products
on the market have no such restrictions,
but are sold with the admonishment to
simply "keep cool and dry".
But are these products actually safe?
On-going studies of probiotic products
on the market today are proving that
many of these supplements grow mold in
your body.
Some molds are extremely dangerous: they
can implant themselves into the kidneys,
lung, or bladder etc. and grow into
serious disease, eventually becoming
cancerous. Since we are considered to be
living deep within the age of fungus,
one might question, what good is the
best of product if it grows mold that
can ultimately cause cancer in your
kidneys, or your bladder, your lungs or
your liver, etc? Since one of the
characteristics of a healthy
microbiology is to defend against
disease, what could one possibly say
about products that grow mold? Another
problem of mold is that it limits the
amount of nutrition that is absorbed and
utilized by the body.
But it is possible to have a probiotic
that will not grow mold?
YES!
In fact, a truly good probiotic cannot
be induced to grow mold, even when
external mold spores are introduced into
the culture. By avoiding
introducing mold into your system you
can avoid the problems of candida yeast.
Strength and integrity come with species
dynamics: As the numbers of different
species multiply, the colony becomes
more and more defensive, to the point
where it is said to be competitively
exclusive.
Just as no two things can occupy the
same space at the same time, neither can
you have disease where you have
competitively exclusive health. The
organisms are simply too dynamically
defensive to allow an invader to become
part of the system! This then, should be
the goal of every individual in these
days of rampant fungus, disease and
bio-terrorism.
If we are to survive and live through
these dangerous times it will be because
of powerful immune systems and not the
result of a physician's needle, plying
us with some toxic substances (heavy
metals and the like).
To this paradigm Greenwood Health
Systems devotes its energies.
In any society there have always been
those many who fail to look ahead, to
make intelligent plans in light of the
available wisdom. These are the ones who
are falling now; and they will continue
to fall in ever greater numbers as our
earth becomes more and more polluted by
the toxic residues of industry, war and
toxic chemistry, and it is up to you to
choose to which class you belong; for
not to choose is to align yourself with
the sick and dying.
Before this exciting new product was
ever introduced into dormancy, for
ultimate consumption, all of the species
were together, in colony, thriving
interdependently in a complete and
active system. They were in a totally,
competitively exclusive condition In
nature, under ideal conditions,
autochthonous microorganisms develop
themselves into colonies of
interdependence. Characteristics of
substrates, weather, moisture, light,
temperature, all play a role in this
process. Whatever it is that a single
microbe is capable of doing, it is most
effective when found in concert with
other species.
As we have said previously, most
probiotics today are the result of
blending certain individual, dormant
species together from a recipe (like
making a cake). Compatibility is often
not a concern, nor is competitive
exclusiveness and longevity a goal (nor
much understood). This whole issue is
extremely important, because if the
microbiology isn't working zymogenically
together as a complete system ... it
will grow mold.
We are concerned about the millions of
people spending good money for products
that have been shown to grow mold.
It would be terrible for people to,
sometime, maybe years later, develop
cancer in the kidneys or the liver, or
lung, or bladder because of a product
they paid for and consumed because they
wanted to enjoy a greater degree of
health.
Our Scientists have tested two of the
top selling probiotics in the country
and both were found to grow mold!
Another product was found to contain
more than 40 different types, and what
you could call a "hand made" product was
a terrible mold producer.
To our knowledge, there are very few
people capable of duplicating nature to
the degree of artificially assembling a
competitively exclusive colony of
microbiology.
And it's easy enough to prove!
You show us any probiotic that not only
will not grow mold as is, but also
cannot be induced to grow mold, and we
would agree that this would be an
excellent starting point. BioSure® is
just that type of product!
Below is a list of just some of the
characteristics of BioSure®:
Cannot be induced to grow mold.
Stops the growth of mold in things it is
mixed with.
Placed onto wounds, it will cause more
efficient healing.
It could be used to pickle food.
Can be added to hand creams and lotions
that promote healing.
Currently being successfully tested in a
facemask to treat acne.
Used, as an ingredient in bread dough
will make delicious bread.
Can be sprinkled on cereals, eggs,
yogurt, and most foods for consumption.
In the body:
Dramatically improves elimination.
Improves digestion.
Helps to control parasites.
Helps with ulcers.
Helps to eliminate body odors.
Anti-oxidant: Helps dramatically against
free radicals.
Helps to heal internal damage.
Reduces mucous.
The body you now have is the only one
you are going to get!
You can either nurture and support it,
or you can abuse it.
If you choose to nurture your body, then
providing it with top quality
nutritional supplements along with live
food, adequate diet and regular exercise
makes perfect sense.
If, however, you choose not to nurture
your body. If you consider the SAD
(Standard American Diet) of mineral
deficient, enzyme depleted, over
processed, over cooked junk foods washed
down with a soda good for you, then in
all probability your own body is one day
going to show you just how tragically
mistaken you are.
Please choose wisely when treating your
Candida Yeast! It can be as easy
as
three items from your supermarket
that can provide results in 12 hours.