Here's an anti-constipation fibre with wide-ranging positive effecs and no negative ones... Inulin is what most people are very low on. The article has a different slant but does contain enough information to get one started.
__________________________________ Probiotic disinformation practices increase profits Body Electric Probiotics, supplementary bowel bacteria, are increasingly mentioned in health articles, and probiotic manufacturers are reaping big financial rewards. Probiotics can be useful to re-colonize the correct bowel flora that has been decimated by long-term antibiotic use, sugar, starch, drugs, alcohol, and even beer abuse. That being said, a lot also remains unsaid and I think you might see it as an unethical practice with a goal to maintain reliance on their product. One probiotics manufacturer, probably the biggest, writes, "We believe the substrate is as important as the probiotics themselves. Many probiotics have included fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) in their product. FOS is an indigestible sugar that may cause digestive disturbances in certain individuals. Primal Defense contains no FOS." What the company leaves out of their comment is that you can't digest FOS, but your bowel bacteria do; they colonise by using it as food. This bacterial food (substrate) is indeed important and I have a 110-page study with references right here to refer to. FOS is a group of long- chain sugars, averaging 3.7 molecules in length. Many bacteria and yeasts can utilize the short chain sugars; very few can utilize the long chain sugars. In a healthy bowel there is a population of beneficial bowel bacteria including a couple of types each of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium. These two bacteria types are by far the most important and they are the main users of all the FOS. According to scientific data, enough FOS and especially Inulin, a particularly long-chain group of sugars averaging 10 molecules in length, is essential to discourage the fluorish of 'bad' bacteria in the bowel. In the unhealthy bowel, FOS can indeed produce gas and flatulence, the digestive disturbance that the above company referred to in certain individuals. If that's the case, your bowel bacteria populations are GUARANTEED to be incorrect, and you'd need more FOS of the correct type, not less, to turn that situation around. With 'good' populations intact there can be little or no bowel disturbance from the FOS because the correct bacteria do not produce this effect. Inulin also increases immune response, stabilizes blood sugar and insulin levels, facilitates mineral absorption, reduces ammonia load, VLDL and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, and the good bacterial fluorish inhibits colon cancer and also manufactures vitamins. The ideal amount of FOS and especially Inulin in the adult diet should be about 12 grams. Most North Americans get only about 2 grams daily; this deficiency is probably where the bowel culture problem originates in most people. Using Inulin especially, you can feed the correct bowel flora at the expense of the incorrect ones to maintain the correct culture. "The probiotics in Primal DefenseTM are hardy and are designed to resist heat, cold, stomach acid, chlorine, fluorine, ascorbic acid and bile." continues the company. Further digging reveals that the bacteria were not designed but rather selected. They are naturally hardy and some are not even native to the human frame but to animals and to the soil; nevertheless, stomach acidity should for the most part kill incoming bacteria, and if many get through, your stomach is probably not acid enough, a separate and reversable widespread problem. Regardless, if you want to effect a good bowel culture in a short time, it's more effective to do some retentive enemas of a slurry of a probiotic product as well as the oral method. Anyway, a leading probiotics manufacturer that buys a lot of advertising space is cashing in by having you supplement long-term with their bacteria, while avoiding telling you how to feed it to enable the culture to 'take' properly. As you might guess, doing so would thereby wean you off their expensive product. By minimizing the role FOS and especially Inulin plays in the healthy diet, they can perhaps keep people off natural methods, and on their foreign bacteria blend with little opportunity for the two primary, native bacteria to colonize effectively. Do you think they know so little about feeding their beneficial organisms, or are they lying by omission to sell more of their product? Do you see this as a possible ethics issue? Let's maintain a good bowel culture by using the correct amount of Inulin in our diet, and less of the offending sugars and starches. If we did that most of us would probably not need probiotic xyz to come to the rescue in the first place. And to reverse bowel dysbiosis, by adding Inulin to the equation, treatment with probiotic can be short-term and occasional rather than long-term. You'll find Dahlia or Chicory Inulin such as Canuck Sales' locally distributed Prereactive brand at many health food stores. Natural sources are many: dandelion root and greens, onion, garlic, jerusalem artichoke, and generally, vegetables. Inulin is the most common natural carbohydrate in the vegetable kingdom after starch. Duncan Crow > try products like "homozone" . do a search on google. this adds > oxygen to your system > and can be a laxative in proper dose. > -- > best > william meyer > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
