Lately probiotics have been receiving a lot of attention for their ability to help your digestive system break down nutrients efficiently.
But did you know they could help protect your body against the ubiquitous toxins found in our foods and water that threaten our long-term health?
Your digestive system houses approximately more than five hundred varieties of bacteria. They’re all part of the micro ecosystem that helps digests your food and boost your immune system.
Probiotics are strain of bacteria that are particularly efficient at helping your digestion, improving your immune system, and breaking down the toxins that go through your digestive tract.
Diseases are still beyond our control. Fortunately pesticides and other toxins are made manageable by either making smart purchases or learning how to naturally remove pesticides from our produce.
Incorporating probiotic bacteria in our digestive tract ecosystem is just another step to help reduce the damages our bodies take over the course of our lives.
Probiotics can help break down the following toxins and pesticides:
1. Perchlorate
This chemical compound is a common ingredient in jet fuel and fireworks. Unfortunately, it’s also a fairly ubiquitous contaminant dumped in our environment and our own foods.
Even worse, some organic food producers are still not able to entirely get rid of this toxin in their crops. It’s even been found in some mothers’ breast milk and urine, meaning that it’s been able to infiltrate peoples’ endocrine system. This is in turn can cause complications in your thyroid.
But fret not! A probiotic strain called Bifidobacterium Bifidum has demonstrated an excellent capacity to breakdown degrading perchlorate in your digestive system.
2. Sodium Nitrate
While this is mostly employed to help preserve the healthy color in meat products at large chain supermarkets, this chemical compound is also used as an ingredient in rocket fuel and gunpowder.
Sodium nitrate has also been linked multiple chronic diseases, especially cancers. It’s also highly toxic to the pancreas and liver.
Once again probiotics can help reduce this toxin’s potential harm. Four strains of bactobacillus we able to improve the breakdown rate of sodium nitrate by fifty percent.
3. Bisphenol
This is the chief offender on this list because it’s found almost everywhere in our lives. It can be found in paper receipts, most consumer plastics, dental composites, and even paper money.
Why is this horrifying? Bisphenol is a notorious endocrine disruptor which can wreak long term havoc to your body’s hormonal balance.
Lactobacillus casei and Bifidobacterium breve have shown, in multiple studies, of having the capacity to help your body get rid of this toxin by increasing the rate your digestive system absorbs and processes it.
4. Heavy Metals
Unfortunately, not as engaging as the music genre. In your daily routine you’re exposed to these toxic elements (aluminum, mercury, cadmium, and lead) by simply drinking unfiltered tap water or by simply living in a polluted city.
The presence of these metals in your body can cause serious long-term damage in the form of muscular and neurological degeneration. Aluminum is particularly noxious.
So where can you find these probiotic supplements?
I recommend checking out verified organic and probiotic brands of yogurt and even goat’s milk. You can also find some reliable probiotic supplements.
Your main concern should be making sure the new probiotics you ingest actually take root in your digestive tract and become part of the ecosystem.
Sources:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/food/risks.htm
http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/features/what-are-probiotics
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