| Probiotics are products that get your body's intestinal | | | | claims (such as mitigating type II diabetes) have not |
| flora and fauna balanced. Where once they were only | | | | passed the clinical trials studies, the general consensus |
| found in obscure health food stores and alternative | | | | is that taken in moderation, at worst, they're |
| medicine, they've moved into the mainstream world | | | | harmless, and they may do some good. (For |
| in yogurts at your local grocer. | | | | example, the Swedish study is (barely) within the high |
| One of the leading providers of probiotics for the | | | | end boundaries of the placebo effect.) |
| health food market is Garden of Life; they've been | | | | Most probiotic supplements use strains of bacteria |
| leaders in the probiotics field for years. Their industry | | | | from the Enterococcus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, |
| leading product is the Primal Defense Probiotics line, | | | | Saccharomyces boulardii and Bifidobacterium families, |
| which comes in tailored mixtures of probiotic cultures | | | | and Primal Defense Ultra has all of them, and more - |
| for different dietary needs, with the broad spectrum | | | | the entire cocktail of probiotics includes 13 species of |
| Primal Defense Ultra line as their top end. | | | | bacterium in all, most included to help your body |
| Those who sell probiotic cultures claim a lot of | | | | scavenge lactic acid before it can damage tissues, |
| benefits, from improved digestion (by balancing out | | | | and to help repair the epithelial walls of the |
| the biotic cultures in your intestinal tract, and | | | | gastroinstestinal tract. |
| balancing the pH of your endocrine system), to | | | | All of these are bacterium that can normally be found |
| helping minimize problems with late onset diabetes | | | | in natural foods and unprocessed vegetables, and all |
| (by helping clear the receptors that make you | | | | are quite happy living in your digestive tract. Primal |
| resistant to your own insulin) to boosting the immune | | | | Defense Ultra bonds them in a proprietary compound |
| system (by making your body in better balance with | | | | called UltraZorb, which is designed to protect the |
| its own intestinal flora, it helps tune the immune | | | | bacterium from the acids of the stomach, UltraZorb |
| system's responses to other "threats" and keeps | | | | is also meant to help them be absorbed by the |
| things in check. | | | | duodenum and colon. |
| While full on double blind tests of probiotics are still | | | | Probiotic cocktails are worth looking into if you're |
| ongoing, the preliminary studies are quite promising. | | | | experiencing irregular bowel movements, digestive |
| Studies conducted in Sweden showed that those on | | | | problems, or are having low energy during the day (a |
| probiotic supplements missed an average of 10% | | | | common problem when your blood pH levels get out |
| fewer work days than the control group, | | | | of balance and your blood sugar starts yo-yoing). The |
| independent of other factors such as age, gender | | | | supplements are easy to get at your local health |
| and weight - in short, the benefits of probiotics were | | | | food store, and we can recommend Primal Defense |
| near universal across all spans and ages and health | | | | Ultra as a worthwhile addition to your dietary |
| morphologies. While some of the more exuberant | | | | supplement needs. |