Probiotic News

What disease has ever been found to be caused by a lack of a drug?

Most of us recognize that health does not come from a pill … and that no disease is caused by a pharmaceutical or vaccine ‘deficiency’.

So how is it that most consider it sound practice to use potentially toxic chemicals as a first-line treatment for conditions that are not caused by a lack of a chemical?  More...

Simply because we love it! We love our diseases; they greatly help us to feel sorry for ourselves and to get attention from others; and there are few things more motivating to initiate change in our lives than pain. We usually don’t consciously recognize we are making ourselves sick, so when we do ‘catch’ something it feels far more like something impacting us from outside ourselves rather than from within. Our physical being for whatever reason has moved away from that which it innately strives to move towards – harmony.

We smoke and wonder why we get cancer. We eat modified fat and wonder over blocked arteries. We stay angry for 30 years and drop dead from heart attack. We compete mercilessly and stroke with the stress. We quite literally worry ourselves to death. We take rotten care of our bodies, paying little attention at all to them until something starts to go off the rails. We take much better care of the car than our bodies and that’s not saying a great deal. And what is particularly interesting from my perspective is when we do go to see someone about our health; we don’t take their advice or the medications they prescribe!

Imagine a continuum with death at one end and vibrant health at the other with symptom free halfway - where do you sit on this scale? Where would you like to sit? What are you doing about it? If you suffer recurrent conditions such as sinus, allergy, headache, insomnia, fatigue, muscular or joint pain, digestive disturbances, anxiety or mood swings etc., you are not on the more desirable side of this scale, would you agree? Yet, conditions like these are endured and thought of as commonplace, a hazard of our lifestyle and ignored where possible.  More...

Probiotics which bind and neutralizes the toxin produced by E. Colic could potentially save lives, by protecting humans from the deadly toxin which causes life-threatening attacks on the kidneys and blood vessels. (Professor Paton, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases at Adelaide University).

Professor Paton said after diagnosis of E. coli infection there was a window of opportunity for therapeutic intervention before kidneys started to fail. Antibiotics are not used because they can increase the amount of toxin released in the gut.

In spite of the availability of antibiotics for over fifty years, bacterial infectious diseases continue to kill more people than any other disease group. New pathogens are emerging; old ones are returning, but this time with resistance to multiple classes of antimicrobial drugs.  More...

What a fantastic story and grand cascade of events the digestive process is.

Did you know a normal healthy person's stomach contains hydrochloric acid (HCl)? Or that HCl is the body’s first line of immune defence breaking down ‘germs’ as well as food? Or that the stomach functions to initiate a whole cascade of digestive events setting up the body for good health!

The importance of ensuring digestion is working optimally becomes clear with the understanding that you are not only ‘what you eat’, but more importantly you are ‘what you can absorb’! For example, you can pour the purest water into a dirty bucket, but you are still going to end up with dirty water…  More...

Progurt, unlike many other probiotics, evidences categorically that it is a powerful probiotic of human origin, with in excess of 1 trillion colony-forming units or CFU. Progurt offers a safe alternative to the medical procedure of “Fecal Implants” by offering beneficial human microbiota in a powder form. One Progurt sachet may be taken with a healthful pressed juice –without any of the risks of a medical procedure.

A recent article in the New York Times, showed a growing number of medical researchers outlining the common denominator of many, if not most, of the chronic diseases from which we suffer today may be inflammation — a heightened and persistent immune response by the body to a real or perceived threat – with its origins in the gut, with a disorder of the microbiota.

Gut disorders predisposing people to illnesses like cardiovascular disease, obesity, Type 2 diabetes and perhaps cancer. While health organizations differ on the exact definition of metabolic syndrome, a 2009 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 34 percent of American adults are afflicted with the condition.  More...

We human beings may think of ourselves as a highly evolved species of conscious individuals, but we are all far less human than most of us appreciate.

Indeed, Princeton University scientists compared the approximately 30,000 human genes found in the average human to the more than 3 million bacterial genes inhabiting us, concluding that we are at most one per cent human!

And if that is not startling enough, did you know the lining of your gut is as thin as an eyelid. It takes just four days to regenerate itself and over a lifetime, it will help process 25 tons of food. It is far more sensitive and permeable than your skin and is the true interface between your body and the outside world.  More...

Illness is always a biologically meaningful process, the purpose of which is to eliminate toxins and to repair, reduce, or contain the damage they cause.

Symptoms are your bodies' way of telling you that all is not well in its world! Something is missing, being overloaded, or over looked - its needs are not being met at some level.

Illness is a reflection of your past decisions and actions (and/or genetic inheritance) and your future health status is completely in your hands. Ignoring a problem at work does not make it go away. So to, the body will continue to try to let you know of its problem in ever increasingly more obvious ways until you finally take notice.  More...

What we eat, how we eat, and when we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than it has in the previous 40,000. This is a blink of the eye in our evolutionary history and the body has been unable to keep pace with this change, and this has led to problems.

These problems are most commonly expressed in the body as a consequence of intracellular dehydration, changes in the body’s pH and the decline in numbers and biodiversity of our bacterial biomass. These are the ‘up-stream’ causes of disease which manifests ‘down-stream’ in the form of symptoms. It is these up-stream ‘drivers of dis-ease’ which lead to the myriad sets of symptoms and maladies commonly finding expression in the western world today.  More...

Australia (and the rest of the western world for that matter) does not have a health care system; we have a disease-management system.

It’s a system that is primarily dependent on pharmaceutical medicines and surgery, while almost wholly ignoring preventive measures and simpler treatment alternatives. It is a system whose first priority (by law) is shareholder profits, seemingly opposed to helping people maintain or regain their health.

Many people do not realise that there is another way to look at healthcare…  More...

Our human biomass is composed of 7,000 trillion human cells and a staggering 130,000 trillion bacterial cells! We are essentially walking bacterial super colonies!

Take a second for that last statement to sink in!

What impact do these bacteria have on our day to day metabolic processes and specifically, what roll do they play in our health?  More...