THE FRIENDLY BACTERIA CULTURES   The "Friendly Bacteria" naturally found in the intestinal tract including the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and the large intestine are absolutely essential for health, energy, purity, protection and quality of life. You cannot live without them. Their functions are so numerous and detailed that to destroy them is to destroy yourself.   "Probiotic" means 'for life' and the Science of Probiotics is the study of the friendly bacteria cultures and their relationship to higher life forms. Life on the planet earth could not exist without the friendly bacteria. Ninety per cent of all bacteria in the soil are friendly. Only about ten per cent of bacteria are considered unfriendly or pathogenic (disease causing). In fact, life could not exist on earth at all without the friendly bacteria in the soil to break down dead and decaying life forms and thereby promote the growth of new seeds and plant life for our existence. This balance is always maintained by natural means in order to continue the existence of all living things. Likewise, in the intestines are also found positive and negative organisms, but the 90 to 10 percent ratio is always maintained through the natural presence of the friendly flora unless they are destroyed by unnatural means. When this happens health problems and conditions too numerous to mention are guaranteed.   The Friendly bacteria are absolutely essential for tissue moisture balance through the retention of magnesium and potassium. These two minerals are lost excessively if too many impurities enter the blood. The lack of magnesium and potassium is the key deficiency for encouraging fatigue. Cell harmony and purity are maintained by the presence of the friendly flora in the intestines, but their main advantage is the ongoing continuation of cell energy, integrity and self preservation. What happens in the intestines will be duplicated in the tissues. In order to keep the intestines sterilized and free from pollutants, pathogenic bacteria and especially yeast colonies, high quantities of the friendly flora are absolutely required. In order for this to take place they need to be maintained with continuous implanting on a daily basis.   An excessive candida yeast infection cannot and will not develop in the intestines if ample amounts of these cultures are continually supplemented. They are your first line of defense against all invading single-celled microorganisms, which serve no purpose in the body. They are your protectors and guard you against pathogens and toxins that may enter the blood stream and poison the body. Your immune system has a minimal effect in protecting your intestines against the negatives of the outside world. There is a cascade of immune protective substances that the body produces such as white blood cells, macrophages, T-Cells, B-Cells, antibodies, etc., but their primary purpose is to guard against the negative invaders once they enter the blood stream and tissues. They can do little good to prevent pathogenic organisms from entering the intestinal area. The friendly bacteria come to your rescue when the "bad guys" come in through the mouth and make their way down past the acids of the stomach and enter the small intestines. Your life would literally be in a shamble without the 'friendly bacteria' and they exist in extremely large numbers at all times, if you were amply supplied at birth and were hopefully encouraged with breast feeding. The Law Of Cause And Effect   There are three main activities in one's life that will destroy and weaken the body. First is the typical American diet with high amounts of cooked and refined processed foods that poison and place a tremendous burden on the digestive organs. Most of the foods we eat are very negative and over acidifying, creating hardships on the stomach, liver and intestines. Good food that is as natural as possible gives you energy and bad food that is heavily processed, cooked and devitalized takes it away. If enough bad food is consumed for a long enough period of time, then you will become as your food is and eventually your body will suffer the consequences. Overeating of bad food inhibits the proliferation of the friendly bacteria and defeats their purpose by placing a heavier burden on their natural functions. There is literally too much for them to do and it becomes impossible for them to detoxify and neutralize all the negatives that we put into the body. If you eat bad, processed food the majority of the time, your need for the friendly flora is much higher. WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH OF THE BODY, YOU SURELY "REAP WHAT YOU SOW".   The second destructive substance to the body and especially within the intestines is man-made chemicals. They are everywhere, in the air, in our water supplies, medicines, drugs, insecticides, etc., but especially added to our foods. Much of what we eat has a diverse amount of different types of chemical additives put in for commercial purposes only, without any regard to those eating them. They say they are safe, but it is a known fact that chemicals have an accumulative effect within the body and will eventually destroy living cells, weaken the vital organs and contribute to disease. When these chemicals are deposited in large enough amounts over a long enough period of time, somewhere within the genetic weakness of each individual there will be such accumulations that degeneration of living tissue will take place and inflammatory conditions and dysfunction will occur. These chemicals destroy not only the life of the body, but also the friendly flora in both the small and large intestine.   The third area causing great body dysfunction, pain and especially fatigue is the presence of invading parasites such as viruses, bacteria, yeast colonies, amoebas, worms and other pathogenic microorganisms. They destroy living tissue, put holes and tears in the intestinal wall, interfere with digestion, absorption and elimination and in general pollute and poison the body. You are as strong as your weakest link and genetically you were born with certain weaknesses. When toxins enter the bloodstream, they are removed by the liver and kidneys, if they are working. When massive amounts of pollutants keep coming into the body on a daily basis, the liver and kidneys begin to dysfunction and lose efficiency. Then these poisons begin to accumulate and are stored in the genetic weak areas of the body first, and then in time, everywhere else. The more toxins there are in one area, the more the future toxins are attracted to that area, and will always go where there is the most weakness. This compounds an already bad situation, and the weaker the area gets, the more it breaks down and as the cells die and degenerate, you have inflammation, pain, tenderness and eventually disease. No excess toxins in the body and no interference in cellular activity by contaminates, there can be no disease or pain. It is the toxins being stored in the tissues is what makes your life miserable and contributes in some way to most all health problems of today. IT IS NOT THE PRESENCE OF THE GOOD THAT MAKES YOU GOOD, BUT THE ABSENCE OF THE BAD.   The part of the body to deteriorate first under physical abuse from bad diet, chemicals and parasites is the digestive system and the eventual destruction of the friendly bacteria. This puts you in a form of double jeopardy of incredible complications associated with that kind of abuse. But even before all this negativity is started, a yeast infection and/or a lack of the friendly bacteria can be established the moment you are born. Both friendly and unfriendly microorganisms are picked up at birth as a newborn baby passes through the birth canal of its mother. If the mother is not adequately supplied with the friendly flora, her baby will also be lacking. If she should happen to have a yeast infection anywhere in her body, then the candida or a predisposition to a yeast infection can be transferred at this time to the baby. If the child is not fed properly or is not breast-fed, then the candida will begin to grow slowly along with other harmful bacteria. When you consider all the white flour and while sugar products and candy children eat at all the holidays, etc., you begin to wonder how we survive. This is how and when many adults of today got their start in a yeast problem.