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:
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Cannot be induced to grow mold.
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Stops the growth of mold in things it is mixed with.
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When placed onto wounds, it will cause more efficient healing.
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It could be used to pickle food.
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Can be added to hand creams and lotions that promote healing.
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Currently being successfully tested in a facemask to treat acne.
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When
used
as an ingredient in bread dough will make delicious bread.
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Can be sprinkled on cereals, eggs, yogurt, and most foods for
consumption.
In the
body:
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Dramatically improves elimination.
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Improves digestion.
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Helps to control parasites.
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Helps with ulcers.
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Helps to eliminate body odors.
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Anti-oxidant: Helps dramatically against free radicals.
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Helps to heal internal damage.
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Reduces mucous.
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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