The One Supplement Everyone Should Be Taking

The One Supplement Everyone Should Be Taking

There are millions of supplements that are available today to you. A majority of them depend upon different factors in order to actually help a certain person. There are a few supplements though that could help the greater majority of our population. The one supplement that everyone should be taking is a probiotic!

What are probiotics? 

Probiotics are live microorganisms that can be ingested to promote a healthy lifestyle. Your gut is filled with hundreds of types of microorganisms like yeast, bacteria, and viruses. The good bacteria that lines your intestinal walls is called your “norma flora”. This flora is the gatekeeper of your gut. It supports the uptake of vitamins, nutrients, and other good stuff that your body needs to stay healthy.

How do you take them?

As a quality source, mainly you will get the right dosages by either taking a supplement in pill or capsule form, or by eating organic fermented foods. Yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi all have a lot of probiotics in them. I do recommend finding other sources different from the dairy products. Dairy has been shown to be highly inflammatory and is causing its own set of allergies and sensitivities in our population and has little dietary benefit when compared to other sources of nutrients.

What can they help with?

It has been shown that 70% of your immune system is in your gut! You’ve got to protect it! There’s no better way than to support with probiotics. People who take probiotics experience less bloating, IBS, and diarrhea. Positive immune response will follow. Your body relies on the gut to transport nutrients and vitamins to get to the rest of your body. What does that mean? So the vitamins that you just took, the healthy meal you just ate, without a healthy gut flora, none or little actually gets where it needs to go, it just gets excreted.

What decreases your normal gut bacteria?

Certain medications can decrease your norma flora. For example, antibiotics will wipe your gut clean of all of that good bacteria. This would be a good time to double up on dosages in order to re-populate. Not eating enough prebiotics for the bacteria to live off of will de-populate. Alcohol use, lack of exercise and sleep also decrease good gut bacteria.

So now you know the one supplement everyone should be taking. The question is, are you?

For dosage information, concerns, or general questions about probiotics, reach out to me and I’d be happy to help.

Yours in health,

Dr. Glenn Ezell