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Why Acidophilus Pills Need Prebiotics To Benefit Your Digestion
1. Acidophilus pills have been on the market for many years
to help people rebalance their digestion. To understand
how they work you need to understand how your
digestion works.
3. Our digestion tract is an amazing piece of equipment. Did
you that if your stretched it out fully it would cover a
whole football field. The digestive tract is also known as
our internal skin and it is our body's first line of defence
from the outside world. It is responsible for the essential
functions of digestion, absorption and elimination. These
functions nourish us, feed our cells, give us energy to
function and basically - keep us alive.
5. This unique and complex operation is pulled together by
billions of bacteria that live in your digestive tract. These
bacteria are living organisms, meaning they grow within
your intestinal walls. There are good bacteria and there
are bad bacteria. It is important for digestive health and
your overall wellbeing that you ensure your good bacteria
are looked after. If the bad bacteria are allowed to overrun
your digestive system, you will leave yourself exposed to
digestive disorders and intestinal infections.
6. The balance of good and bad bacteria is a fragile one.
When we are healthy, eating a good diet, taking regular
exercise and avoiding stress our good bacteria will thrive.
However, eating high fat and processed foods, smoking,
alcohol and taking antibiotics can destroy these good
bacteria, leaving the door open for disease-causing
pathogenic microbes to take over.
8. One way to replenish your good bacteria is to take
acidophilus pills. I know, acidophilus is a bit of a mouthful
however, the word stands for a specific strain of good
bacteria or probiotic. L. Acidophilus is also known as a
resident strain because it remains in the digestive tract.
However, there are strains of probiotics that pass through
your system such as lactobacillus casei, which is derived
from cheese. The resident strains of good bacteria are
more effective at fighting intestinal infections, because
they remain and grow inside your intestinal walls.
9. The only problem with taking acidophilus pills is that you
have no idea if these probiotics are actually reaching your
gut. In order to reach your small intestine they need to get
through the highly acidic environment of your stomach.
Another problem is if your digestive tract is already
overrun with bad bacteria most of the acidophilus bacteria
will not survive.
11. For this reason you need to create the right environment
in your gut before you can benefit from acidophilus pills.
To create the right environment for the good bacteria to
thrive you need to have prebiotics. This amazing
substance is a form of dietary fibre that is found naturally
in fruit and vegetables. Prebiotics have many digestive
health qualities that include cleansing your intestines of
toxic bacteria and providing food for your probiotics to
survive. So, if your want the good guys to survive and
thrive make sure you get enough prebiotics first.