Relieve Your Bloated Stomach With Probiotics
In 2001, a young girl from Canada's East Coast, named Lindsay Edmund put together a science fair project. The findings from this high school assignment were later published in the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association. Here's what she did...
Lindsay completed a survey of 100 physicians. She discovered that they all prescribe antibiotics regularly. Yet only 10% recommend probiotics together with the antibiotics. And only 18% were even aware there was any research on introducing good bacteria. So...
You're About to Gain More Probiotic Knowledge Than 82% of Nova Scotian MDs
As you may already know, the right types of bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract are essential for a healthy digestive system. Having a bloated stomach with gas are often caused by too many unfriendly bacteria feasting on your lunch and excreting toxic and gaseous waste in return. Probiotics (aka good bacteria) will keep their numbers down.
In fact, many more MDs are now recommending women take probiotics after a course of antibiotics. As 80% of female patients tell me, antibiotic treatment almost always leads to a nasty yeast infection.
But not only should you take probiotics AFTER the antibiotic treatment but also during. It's so important you don't do this wrong — otherwise the antibiotics will wipe out whatever healthy intestinal flora you introduce.
Many people experience constipation or diarrhea with antibiotic treatment and this may be partly why. If you wipe out all life in your colon, you can't expect it to work properly.
What are Probiotics?
"Probiotic" comes from the Latin, meaning "for life." Antibiotics, on the other hand, means "against life." Antibiotics kill off bacteria. Probiotics introduce healthy, essential, intestinal flora.
As I was saying...
ONE course of antibiotics wipes out 99.9% of ALL the bacteria in your colon.
Yep, that means the bad guys AND the good guys.
Worse still.... oftentimes, the unfriendly bacteria will grow back faster. Now the ratio is off. Your digestive tract, lungs, urinary tract, skin, etc. are under the rule of a new species.
On top of that... conventional meat, eggs and dairy products contain antibiotics. The conditions in which we raise livestock have become so inhumane, filthy and crowded that antibiotics are automatically added to feed.
So, if you're eating non-organic animal products, you're constantly giving the friendly and UNFRIENDLY bacteria in your gut small doses of antibiotics. Not sufficient to wipe them out, but enough to build up their resistance.
Instead, you want to keep the bad guys weak and let the good guys rule. And boy, do they know how to take up space... I'll get into those creepy crawly details in another article, along with 4 other reasons why probiotics can improve your life (it's not just about your digestive tract).
What you can take away from today's article is the importance of switching to organic milk, cheese, eggs, butter, chicken, fish... anything that comes out of an animal. Not only are conventional animals treated with antibiotics but they are also pumped full of artificial hormones to force them to grow faster or produce more milk.
Many of my patients have found that switching to organic has relieved their intolerance to milk. They were in fact not intolerant to the milk, but to the hormones and antibiotics that were being fed to the cows.
On top of that these cows are being fed genetically modified, pesticide-sprayed grains and other crops. And now the FDA has just okayed cloned meat for human consumption.
Sure, it'll cost you a little more to eat free-range, grass-fed, organic animals products... but you'll probably pay three fold in health care if you stick with the conventional.
Yours in Natural Health,
Dr. Karlo Mauro, BSc, BA, MSEd, ND
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
Constipation Relief Strategies For Women
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Over the last 12 years Dr. Karlo Mauro has helped thousands of patients with their gastro-intestinal issues. He works out of his clinic near Windsor, Ontario on the border to Detroit. For more information on his naturopathic practice, go to www.theNaturopath.ca.
In 1992 Dr. Mauro began training in the martial art of Aikido Yoshinkai. In 2003, he earned a 3rd degree black belt. It was Aikido that originally opened his eyes to living a more natural lifestyle -- staying more balanced physically and mentally.
In 1995, he began receiving help from a Naturopathic Doctor for some digestive trouble he was experiencing. This first introduction to natural medicine resulted in him meeting other Naturopathic Doctors and finally making a life-changing decision.
Despite the fact he had just completed 6 years of university, including a Masters degree in Education, Dr. Mauro abandoned his teaching career, entered Naturopathic College, emerging four years later an ND.
Dr. Mauro lives in Windsor, Ontario with his wife Natalia, son Alek and daughter Ella. When he's not at the clinic, he's either watching Alek play golf, watching Ella in gymnastics class or coaching Alek's soccer team.Though he's helped patients with a wide variety of disorders, he's found the most success helping people with gut trouble. "I like the fact it's so easy to see an improvement," he says. "If you're constipated, only going once a week, and you start going everyday, you KNOW you're getting better."
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Many fertility specialists have seen a definite link between constipation and the inability to conceive or carry a baby to full-term. It makes perfect sense... "If your colon is overloaded with toxins," explains Dr. Mauro, "those toxins will back up into your liver and then into your bloodstream. It's less than ideal circumstances for balancing hormones and bearing a healthy child." Though Dr. Mauro makes no guarantees that having one bowel movement a day will ensure fertility, it should nonetheless help make getting pregnant much easier. You should consider regularity a natural component of any fertility program. |
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Sometimes, even if you are going once a day, it's difficult because your stools are too hard and dry.
Ideally you want your stools to be about the consistency of a ripe banana. Anything looser or thinner is undesirable.
One of the problems with laxatives is that they don't produce this banana-like quality. Instead they bring on diarrhea. Diarrhea is dehydrating and depleting of valuable nutrients (such as potassium and sodium).
Dr. Mauro's 7-part email series and his collection of 37 Constipation Relief Strategies for Women help produce this ideal consistency because they help you retrain your bowels to work properly. When your colon is in good health, it will naturally make sure your stools are neither too dry nor too hard.
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Are you confused about how much you should be eating? Do you feel like you're already full after your first bite of food?
It's no wonder," says Dr. Mauro, "that so many women suffer eating disorders. If you're not evacuating, it's hard to make room for more food. If waste can't find its way down and out, it's going to make your stomach bulge outward and upward.
In fact, your colon can expand three times its regular size (along with your stomach). The secret to a normal appetite is making sure you are emptying your bowels every 24 hours."
You should have no problem achieving one or two bowel movements a day, if you make the simple changes outlined in 37 Constipation Relief Strategies for Women. This should happen in less than 30 days of using these strategies.
Some medical doctors will prescribe birth control drugs to help with constipation. They believe this will help balance the hormones. Like most synthetic hormones, birth control pills come with complications.
Many women experience breakthrough bleeding, decreased appetite, depression, headaches, low libido, urinary tract infection, skin problems, gum inflammation. They also have an increased risk of contracting viral diseases.
Considering all the risks, is this really a good way to "balance your hormones?" Especially when natural methods may produce far superior (and economical) results...
Oftentimes hormonal imbalance is caused by a high consumption of white flour and sugary foods. These same foods turn into a glue-like substance that further clogs up your bowels.
By following the natural remedies and lifestyle changes in 37 Constipation Relief Strategies for Women, you'll be helping to bring your hormones into balance, naturally. Likewise, getting your bowels moving will stop toxins from backing up into your bloodstream, which will further knock your hormones out of whack.
"Many medical experts today agree that most illness begins in the colon and that the colon may be the single most critical organ in the body. As the colon becomes a stagnant cesspool, failing to move the poisons from food waste out of the body on a regular basis, the toxins back up.
"It is estimated that there are 36 different poisons that come from the colon, and as these accumulate in the bowel over a period of weeks, months or often years, they spread into your liver, gallbladder and other organs; into your blood; into your tissues and finally into your cells."
-- Women's Menopause Health Newsletter, October 2007
"A lot of elderly people are taking senna," explains Dr. Mauro. "It's an herb that causes your colon to flush itself out. Many people must drink it as a tea everyday in order to keep on going. The nerves and muscles in their colon are totally zapped and dependent on the stuff. It's a nightmare trying to get them off it."
Senna is one of the few herbs medical doctors prescribe. Unfortunately, it's harmful to use on a daily basis. Once a week as part of a colon cleanse is okay, but more frequently is impairing.
The effects of senna can be fairly drastic," explains Dr. Mauro. "They tend to flush out too much of the healthy bacteria. It's like having diarrhea. It's dehydrating and depleting of your electrolytes (potassium and sodium)."
I don't know about you but I don't want to be dependent on an herb to make me go. Worse still, you have little control over your bowel movements. You go when the herb is ready to make you go. There's not much warning.
That's fine if you're 80 and don't leave home. That's not great when you're on your way to soccer practice to pick up the kids.
Senna is also dangerous for people with high blood pressure, kidney problems or edema.
Healing and strengthening your colon so it can function on its own, as described in 37 Constipation Relief Strategies For Women, is the way to go.
Over 4 million Americans, each year, are affected by constipation, according to the The National Institute of Health. That works out to about 2.5 million doctor visits and $725 million in over-the-counter laxatives. The majority of those visits and purchases are by women.
As you can see, there's a lot of money in keeping people constipated and reliant on laxatives. No wonder Dr. Mauro's 37 Constipation Relief Strategies are not more well known.
Digestive disorders account for the largest amount of lost time from work; they are the number one cause of disability absence; they comprise one-sixth of all hospital admissions. It is acknowledged by conventional medicine that at least 40 percent of all cancers originate in the gastrointestinal tract. Many alternative practitioners would say the number is much higher."
— Women's Menopause Health Center Newsletter , October 2007
"And yet, as the old expression goes, death begins in the colon. Don't believe it? Ask any coroner. Autopsies often reveal colons that are plugged up to 80 percent with waste material."
— Martin Zucker,
Vegetarian Times,
March, 1998
"[Toxic waste that built up in the colon turns into] a sinister world of monstrous creatures that feed on living flesh: parasites..."
"In fact, parasites have killed more humans than all the wars in history."
Find out how to kick parasites out of your colon in Strategy 33, on page 35, of 37 Constipation Relief Strategies For Women.
Investigators in the United Kingdom conducted a study on 34 women with chronic constipation. The investigators found a direct demonstrable link between certain aspects of central brain activity -- anxiety, depression, feeling 'unfeminine' -- and gut dysfunction. —Gut, August 2001 |
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