Boost Immunity by Recolonizing Your Bowel with Friendly Intestinal Bacteria

75% of our immune recepter sites are located in the gut. Bifidobacteria, the friendly bacteria of the large intestine in adult humans, decline with age or chronic conditions, such as:

• Use of Steroids
• Diarrhea or Constipation
• Pernicious anemia
• Diverticulosis
• Chrohn's
• X-rays or other radiation exposure
• Cirrhosis of the liver
• Immune deficiencies
• Vaccinations
• Infections
• Use of Antibiotics
• Use of Echinacea or other natural immune boosters

Bifidobacteria can be supported by eating and drinking all kinds of lactic acid-fermented foods, such as:

• Kefir*
• Sauerkraut
• Kombucha tea

*Kefir, available in health food stores, is a milk culture similar to yogurt. Kefir curd is much smaller than yogurt and the strains of beneficial micro-organisms present are different. Yogurt is not able to recolonize the bowel with friendly intestinal bacteria, but kefir will. In Russia, all babies from the age of 6 months are fed kefir.

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