Cindi:
During the last few years a relative new interest has grown in the diversity and purpose of our individual internal microbial population. The interest in this study has grown because of the increased use of antibiotics and their unintended effect on the die off of our internal microbe populations. It has been found that normal infants are born with a "start-up" microbe population except in cases where the mother has been on a regimen of antibiotics which kills not only the bad but the good microbes as well. These infants often have all kinds of digestive problems and can develop severe food intolerance's due to this missing link in their digestive machinery. "The human intestinal tract harbors a complex microbial ecosystem which plays a key role in nutrition and health. Although this microbiota has been studied in great detail by culture techniques, microscopic counts on human feces suggest that 60 to 80% of the observable bacteria cannot be cultivated." It has been found that there are specific bacterias for instance that when absent from the stomach causes an individual to never feel full or satisfied which some suggest may be one of the leading causes for obesity in portions of the general population. Some scientists have alluded to the possibility that over purification of our water supply may also contribute to a reduction in our natural internal microbial population and diversity. It has also been determined that different cultures have different internal microbial populations depending on their diets, which also would seem to indicate that changes in diet without the accompanying internal microbe population can cause problems. Since many of these microbes cannot be cultivated outside the gut they cannot as yet be introduced in pill form, so where we get them in the first place is rather vague.
I realize this is not a fix-it subject but it is interesting, at least to me it is.
Dale in the Flatlands.
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