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I blog probiotically every day while working on posts or actively posting. Can you tell? Do I look any different than everybody else? Well, I know it's hard to see me from where you are, but, let me tell you, I sure feel better than I used to. Getting my digestive track straightened out by following the advice of the Weston A. Price Foundation really changed my life...and I just HAVE to share it ! I want you and yours well, too!
On the Shank Eco-farm, Your Family Cow, in Chambersburg, PA,
the cows and their probiotics are part of the family.
Life before probiotics was very different. I didn't know I was sick. I didn't know I wasn't digesting well. I just thought I had a host of physical problems and tagged them with labels such as "growing old" or "female troubles." But, once our friends convinced us to introduce fermented foods with probiotic bacteria into our diets, my life changed dramatically. The complaints, I thought I had to live with, just went away.
Reading and studying the way people live and eat around the world, I am convinced that many of our common illnesses here in the United States are actually hiding inefficient digestive systems. Digestive tracts unable to properly function usually lack the three pounds of good bacteria needed to help us digest our food. A lack of good bacteria invites the bad bacteria and seriously debilitates our immune systems.
A fellow blogger, Pick Your Brain, has a great post outlining the particulars, but why isn't information about building up the gut flora for optimum health the first thing you hear out of your doctor's mouth when you go to visit? In fact, you have to almost dig for the information while looking in alternative health venues. We are bombarded by pharmaceutical drug advertisements. At the same time, we hear little about the good bacteria necessary to properly sustain our lives. This information about good bacteria ought to be mainstream, not "alternative health" oriented.
Misdiagnosis of faulty digestion is so widespread and
oppressive, one has to ask, "Who stands to gain?"
While years ago, healthy habits were promoted by mainstream media for the common good, now toxic living habits are profiled. For instance, the mainstream media tries to convince us that good food takes too long to fix and our modern schedules demand fast food. Like never before, each of us must gain a knowledge of how our bodies work in order to heal and nurture our way into better living. No longer can we use a blind eye to rely on newspapers, TV, the Federal Government or our medical community to instruct us. And, most importantly, we have to rely on our bodies themselves to tell us when we are feeling good and what constitutes good health. Good health begins with slow food and a fully functioning gut.
The money and time spent on nutrient dense food reaps rewards.
For an informative PDF on "How Probiotics Keep us Healthy,"
click on the dollar bill above.
Great sums of money can be made on a massive scale when people eat toxic food and live in a toxic environment. Each of us is really a fine tuned spiritual being in a physical body of chemicals and electrical impulses. If we don't provide our bodies with the chemicals they need to operate their electrical impulses efficiently, our bodies "don't work right." We get sick and have to seek treatment for health complaints.
Health complaints lead to contacting the medical community and here modern society seems to have gone down a path of corporate profit, promoting illness rather than health. Common sense would seem to require checking the old "garbage in garbage out" admonition. Wouldn't you think a doctor would first inquire about what you eat? How you eat? Your level of exercise? How much sleep you are getting? And whether you get outside into the fresh air everyday? No, by prescribing drugs and ignoring lifestyle, the body gets further and further out of balance. Small problems become big ones. It would appear a toxic population is a revenue generating asset.
And once one studies how the body works and maintains health, the most important requirement seems to be a fulling functioning digestive system. A digestive system that efficiently breaks down food and allows the absorption of essential nutrients requires, so learning how to make
