Ferment For Future Health

Fermentation has long been used as a preservative and by accident those early experiments from hundreds if not thousands of years ago produced cultures that good gut bacteria thrives upon.

One of these early experiments occurred at least two thousand years ago with an attempt to preserve milk with a complex grain containing lactobacilli bacteria and yeast amongst other microorganisms,

Like brewing beer the yeast reacts and multiplies the good bacteria and this continues in the gut when drunk with a beneficial effect upon other gut flora.

One of the many other ingredients is magnesium and this is an element that exists in all of us giving many benefits.  

Although Kefir is usually made with cow or sheep’s milk Biocare probiotics contains the same kind of bacteria but is dairy free. The main healthy bacteria include strains of L-acidophilus.

Supplements like these are easier to take and taken at a regular time simple to remember as well as carry on your person. Kefir may be a powerful probiotic and the best is homemade but a bit time consuming and as a liquid it’s not so easy to take with you.

People need probiotics when run down or recovering from a long illness. They particularly benefit from them if they have been on a course of antibiotics. Antibiotics should be a last resort as there is a concern from some medical quarters that not only are these germ busters destroying good as well as bad bacteria but there are signs those bad bacteria is becoming immune.

Around three quarters of the body’s immune system exists in the digestive system and many trillions of good bacteria and fungus in the gut destroy or keep supressed the bad microorganisms.

When this fine balance of bacteria is disturbed it brings with it many medical problems and not just those to do with the digestive system. Keeping a healthy gut is not such a difficult exercise with the right sort of diet but not many of us keep to a strictly healthy diet and sometimes we need to balance the bacteria in the gut.