KEEP THE BALANCE RIGHT

Imagine the moment when Antony van Leeuwenhoek made a major improvement on a previous invention called the microscope and instead of just twenty-five times magnification he achieved an instrument that magnified two hundred times.

In a process we would now call flossing, he took some dirt from between his teeth and under his new instrument became the first man to discover thousands of little wriggling creatures we now call bacteria.

We now know that pretty well everything on the planet is covered with bacteria and that without it there would be no life on Earth. Decomposition would not occur without these little single cell organisms and the Earth’s gases would support no life at all.

In our gut there are billions of bacteria all working in our favour in helping process the food in our intestine as well as developing our immune system that helps us tackle disease.

Other organisms like virus and yeast also exist in the lining of the gut and one particular one can often prove to be a problem. This is the candida yeast which like everything else is there for a purpose.

The normal levels of candida help with the absorption of nutrients into the body as well as helping to protect against many infections in the gut but occasionally it can grow too fast and get out of control.

This may happen when we have been on a course of antibiotics as that can destroy bacteria indiscriminately without any effect on the candida level as this is yeast. The bacteria will have been keeping in check the amount of candida in the gut and will have lost the potency to do so.

The simple answer is to replace the good bacteria as fast as possible and this is where probiotics comes in.

Probiotics is the process of reintroducing and encouraging good bacteria into the intestines in an effort to re-create the good balance of bacteria and eventually through such a process, balance the candida levels.

Threelac is such a probiotic and the aim is to help create a healthy bacteria balance and although it cannot claim to cure an outbreak of candida it does in many cases lead to an environment that makes that situation less likely.

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