Right now there’s a war raging inside your digestive tract.
Billions of “good guy” beneficial bacteria (called probiotics, which literally means “for life”) are defending you against an army of nasty pathogens.
Your total health depends upon the good guys winning the war.
But if you suffer frequent gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea, yo these are warning signs that your good guys are losing the war within. And fiber supplements, laxatives, acid-fighters—even common probiotics—aren’t the solution.
Recent research from the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School suggests these temporary fixes could be putting your gut health at risk.
These new studies indicate these problems are being caused by a lack of enzymes in your digestive tract.
Let me explain…
Probiotics are good bacteria that live in your gut. You can get them from yogurt, pickles and even dark chocolate.
They keep Your pH levels conducive to digestion and absorption, and out of the acidic range that many less friendly bacteria and yeast thrive in. They also help ferment and absorb substances like fiber.
And they produce mucus that supports peristalsis, the muscular contraction that moves food and waste through your digestive system.
Medical evidence suggests Probiotics even help boost the immune system against illness.
But like all organisms, Probiotics don’t live forever. Taking antibiotics, drinking alcohol or eating processed foods can cause a massive probiotic die off.
As a result, you suffer gas, diarrhea, bloating and difficult digestion. That’s why it’s important to supplement with them the right way using 5 secrets I’ll tell you about in a minute.
But many people take Probiotics and still suffer…
Many people will tell you that you didn’t take enough Probiotics or the right kind. But this is not the whole story…
Here’s what’s really happening…
Research indicates that a probiotic deficiency isn’t the only deficiency causing you difficult digestion, making you fat, killing your energy, causing you pain and sending your blood sugar through the roof. In fact, you may know someone who has taken Probiotics with little or no result. Perhaps even you. Here’s the missing piece…
The Mayo Clinic: Digestive Enzymes Decrease with Age
If your favorite foods don’t agree with you anymore, your doctor may suggest ant-acids and laxatives. But that’s only treating the symptoms. If you want to get to the root of the problem, you need digestive enzymes.
Without digestive enzymes you can’t digest essential proteins, fats, carbohydrates and the minerals, vitamins or other nutrients in your food. Undigested food sits in your digestive tract leaving you bloated, gassy, constipated or suffering diarrhea and you grow weak, lose energy, age faster and grow ill.
Unfortunately, research published by the Mayo Clinic confirms enzyme production decreases with age.
Well-known enzyme researcher Dr. Edward Howell uncovered these alarming facts:
An 18-year-old naturally produces 30 times as much amylase as a 69-year-old. (Amylase is the enzyme that digests carbohydrates.)
Total enzyme production goes down about 13% with each decade.
Your enzyme production is lower still if you’re sometimes eating processed food like convenience foods at drive thru’s.
No wonder digestion keeps getting worse as you get older and health problems increase!
What’s more, enzymes are next to impossible to get from food because cooking destroys them. But you’ll never hear about any of this from your doctor.
Danica Collins
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