Probiotics are the good bacteria that everyone has living in their gastrointestinal tract. Your digestive tract is home to over 500 different species of bacteria, some are good and some are bad. A good healthy balance is 80% beneficial bacteria with the remaining 20% being of a mix of the innocuous or potentially bad ones. Of the trillions of bacteria dwelling in your tract most of them live in the large intestine.The two most common probiotics are Lactobacilla, who constitute the majority of the probiotics living in your small intestine, and the Bifidobacteria which are the most prevalent probiotic in your large intestine. About 70% of your immune system is located in your digestive tract. Therefore a thriving community of benevolent bacteria is very important to your overall health. Any overgrowth of the bad bacteria can lower or overwhelm your immune system. So, how do you go about keeping your bacteria in balance?Although we don’t realise it everyone consumes potentially harmful bacteria on a daily basis. Even your supposedly ‘clean’ cutlery will have the less benign forms of bacteria living on them. Bad bacteria are all around. They are in your home, your office, your car, etc. However […]

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