and whole body detoxification

Everything entering the body except air is absorbed through the digestive tract so it is obvious that wrong conditions in these organs will cause problems everywhere.

If digestion of food, particularly proteins, is incomplete, then incompletely digested particles may be absorbed and set up allergic reactions. It is thought that rheumatoid arthritis is caused by the formation of antibodies to animal proteins which get into the bloodstream and are so similar to some  joint components that antibodies attack the joints, causing inflammation & tissue destruction.

Incomplete digestion also encourages the growth of putrefactive bacteria, producing toxins which increase the liver's workload. All the harmful organisms tend to irritate the intestinal wall or even send shoots through it, causing the "leaky gut" syndrome, allowing in even more toxins.

Fortunately, these many enemies don't have it all their own way. The body has two main systems of defence, firstly the immune system, and secondly, the extremely complex ecological system throughout the intestines, consisting of two main parts:

a)      The background conditions produced by the body, consisting of control of acidity, enzymes and the intestinal walls.

b)      Billions of beneficial bacteria which exist in "symbiosis" with us; meaning that we are essential to them for providing space and food, and they help us in many ways; mainly by killing or controlling pathogenic organisms and by manufacturing some vitamins.

Keeping the Intestines Healthy

A) Diet

Avoid refined carbohydrates and sugars, and animal proteins such as meat, eggs and cheese. These are ideal food for pathogens, and unless the protein foods are  free range can contain up to seventy different antibiotics,  harmful to beneficial bacteria. Eat plenty of vegetables, fruit & whole grains; good food for beneficial bacteria.

B) Digestion

Digestive acid (HCL) kills pathogens in the stomach & helps digestion. Ample  digestive enzymes, ensuring minimum incompletely digested protein as food for putrefactive bacteria, also help.

C) Fructo-oligosaccharides

These consist of chains of sugar molecules, excellent food for beneficial bacteria, but useless for putrefactive bacteria. Supplementing therefore gives useful flora an advantage.

D)  Beneficial bacteria

Lactobacillus Salivarius

Less well-known than other probiotics, it has some unusual properties, mainly that it completely digests protein, so that no partially digested protein is absorbed. It also digests sugars and helps produce lactase (milk-sugar digesting enzyme). It therefore removes all food for pathogenic organisms, decimating their population.

It also, apparently, even digests the "endotoxins" released from the cell walls of dying pathogenic bacteria, yeasts & fungi. It produces no gas during this, & removes all ammonia and other toxic wastes.

Lactobacillus Acidophilus

Mainly colonise the small intestine, producing lactase to digest milk sugar, helping in the digestion of other sugars, and producing several specific antibiotics against pathogens.

Bifidobacteria

These inhabit mainly the colon, & produce lactic and acetic acids and also some natural antibiotics, which help control the populations of pathogens. They appear to be helpful against colon cancer by inhibiting the formation of nitrosamines.

Note

Probiotics are best taken on an empty stomach with cool water.

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