Priobiotics: The Helpful Bacteria
Probiotics are bacteria. But they’re not the harmful bacteria that cause illness and infection. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), probiotics are live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. A wide variety of these helpful bacteria live naturally in our bodies and help keep us healthy. By some estimates, our bodies contain more healthy bacteria cells than human cells.
These helpful bacteria comprise the “microflora” which inhabit our digestive and urogenital, including vaginal, tracts. They play a key role in our bodies’ natural defense systems, by resisting harmful bacteria and other organisms like yeast. But their numbers can easily be diminished by a variety of factors, including stress, diet, menstruation, age, obesity, the environment, and the use of oral contraceptives or antibiotics. When this happens, we become susceptible to illnesses and infections.
Antibiotics are commonly used to fight harmful bacteria and their effects on us. But antibiotics can also destroy helpful bacteria in the process. This then becomes a vicious cycle, diminishing protective microflora in an effort to make up for the lack of them.
There is, however, a natural alternative. By introducing new, healthy bacteria into our systems, we can help to restore our bodies’ normal balance. This reinforces our natural immune systems, so our bodies can continue to fight illness and infection.
And now for the first time, a product line is available to women that uses the power of probiotics to treat and prevent vaginal yeast infection. YeastGard Advanced patent protected formulations naturally strengthen immunity and help restore balance to vaginal microflora so that yeast overgrowth is defeated and future infections prevented.
To learn more about the healthy benefits of probiotics, read the articles and visit the Web sites below.
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