The Shocking Truth About Your Colon

This page contains information on the importance of "Probiotics" and the research behind Living Grains. This material should give you a better understanding of just how important probiotics are to your body and why most so-called "probiotic" products are a waste of money.

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.

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 acidic 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.

Several years ago, Bernard Jensen, D.C., world-renowned author, lecturer and teacher of natural health, said, "It is an indisputable fact that illness, old age, and even death itself are due to the accumulation of waste products (within the body)...to the inability of the body to replenish its cellular structures and organs with fresh, vital nutrients."

Most health authorities now believe that the more common conditions of putrefaction/fermentation/incrustation, caused by prolonged transit times, may underlie nearly every ailment known to man. This toxic waste dump inside you is the breeding ground for just about every ugly development imaginable, from acne to halitosis to diverticulitis to cancer.

Toxins are produced constantly because of cellular metabolism, ingestion, or parasitic involvement. This veritable Pandora's Box of poisons produces more human misery and suffering (mental and moral), as well as physical, than any other known source.

Benefits of Good Bacteria

*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 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.

The Need For 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.

At one time, 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".

Harvey Wiley, once head of the American Bureau of Chemistry (now known as the Food and Drug Administration), was a strong proponent of good triumphing over evil in the American food industry, but his ouster by the food and drug cartels spelled ultimate freedom for pharmaceutical and food "lords" to flood our markets with what has been referred to as "plastic" food.

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".

Wiley feared, with good reason, the future of mankind who, having to sustain itself on the commercially proffered "food" would fall prey to illness, weakness and disease. He knew that the food we consume becomes a "substrate" material that is acted upon by the microbiological cultures present in your system, and that the quality of the food you consume has everything to do with the survival of a healthy microbiology.

Eating "junk food", America's favorite diet, supplies substrates that lead to disease-creating microbiology! 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 (WHO), just ahead of Slovenia and Cuba, and 53rd in the world in life expectancy, behind Libya and Jamaica?

So many nutrients, co-factors, etc., have been lost from the average person's diet that degenerative disease is striking down people at younger and younger ages. (Adult onset diabetes, cancer, heart attacks, dental and vision problems are often found in teen-agers and even children under ten years of age).

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, 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, bladder, etc. and grow into serious diseases, 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 products if it grows mold that can ultimately cause cancer in your kidneys, 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?

Again the answer is YES!

In fact, a truly good probiotic cannot be induced to grow mold, even when external mold spores are introduced into the culture. 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 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 at Greenwood Health 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, the liver, lungs, 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. Living Grains is just that type of product! Below is a list of just some of the characteristics of Living Grains:

In the body:

The Bottom Line

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.

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