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New Studies Show Probiiotics Assist Weight Reduction

September 16, 2010

Probiotics assist with weight loss by helping to create a balance of the proper bacterial flora in the digestive tract.




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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 16, 2010 -- What I'm about to share with you is very powerful information. It is something so subtle but can make a world of difference in people who have that "stubborn" belly fat. We will describe to you how to lose weight and how to lose belly fat by balancing your intestinal flora with probiotics. I'm going to tell you about the problem. Then I'm going to tell you what to do about it and what to avoid to keep it from coming back.

First, we will provide you with some background information on the normal intestinal flora of bacteria and a description of probiotics.

Let’s compare antibiotics versus probiotics. Antibiotics are used to inhibit the growth of bacteria. There is some concern about antibiotic resistant bacteria; what we call “super bugs”, or those that have generated a resistance to the antibiotics. Probiotics, on the other hand, rebalance the growth of the beneficial bacteria we need in our bodies to aid digestion and promote health. The beneficial bacteria in the human body ideally, constitute about 85% of the bacteria. That leaves 15% for what we call unbeneficial, or those that can become harmful. These beneficial bacteria aid in absorption of vitamins and minerals during digestion and are therefore a very essential part to our natural digestive health. When the harmful bacteria overgrow, they take over the space needed by the beneficial bacteria and crowd them out.

We mentioned antibiotics earlier because when we take antibiotics for an infection a side effect is that the antibiotic usually destroys the beneficial bacteria in our intestines. When this occurs the harmful bacteria displace the beneficial bacteria. This leads to digestive problems.
Probiotics are a means of restoring this bacterial balance in the digestive tract.

So how do probiotics maintain beneficial bacteria? They do this by crowding out the other microflora, the bad bacteria that cause intestinal distress. The good probiotics are found in foods like yogurt and other dairy products and used as a preservative. In general, probiotics are a natural way to maintain a healthy intestinal microfloral balance.

Multiple studies indicate that overweight people have different intestinal bacteria than slim people. These bacteria cause low grade inflammation in your body that makes you gain weight and makes it more difficult to lose weight. One family of bacteria in particular called firmicutes help your body to extract calories from complex sugars and deposit those calories in fat. Overweight people have 20% more of this type of bacteria than slim people.

The solution to this problem is balancing your normal intestinal bacteria with probiotics. Due to our awful diets, the majority of the population has an imbalance in their gut bacteria which causes all sorts of intestinal problems . That's also another reason why you have otherwise thin people with and excessive


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  • Name: James Conte

    Company: Synergistic Nutritional Labs Inc.

    Telephone: 845-231-2965

    Email: ***@synergistic-labs.com


  • About the author

    I have been involved in health care for the past 20 years. I am a registered pharmacist and registered nurse with degrees in electrical engineering, clinical pharmacology, and nursing. i work as a consultant for hospital intensive care units. Visit me at



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