Importance of Probiotics in Weight Loss

What I'm about to share with you is very powerful information. It is something so subtle but can make a world of difference in people who have that "stubborn" belly fat. We will describe to you how to lose weight and how to lose belly fat by balancing your intestinal flora with probiotics.
 
I'm going to tell you about the problem. Then I'm going to tell you what to do about it and also what to avoid to keep it from coming back.

First, we will provide you with some background information on the normal intestinal flora of bacteria and a description of probiotics.

Let’s compare antibiotics versus probiotics. Antibiotics are used to inhibit the growth of bacteria. There is some concern about antibiotic resistant bacteria; what we call “super bugs”, or those that have generated a resistance to the antibiotics. Probiotics, on the other hand, rebalance the growth of the beneficial bacteria we need in our bodies to aid digestion and promote health.

The beneficial bacteria in the human body ideally, constitute about 85% of the bacteria. That leaves 15% for what we call unbeneficial, or those that can become harmful. These beneficial bacteria aid in absorption of vitamins and minerals during digestion and are therefore a very essential part to our natural digestive health. When the harmful bacteria overgrow, they take over the space needed by the beneficial bacteria and crowd them out. We mentioned antibiotics earlier because when we take antibiotics for an infection a side effect is that the antibiotic usually destroys the beneficial bacteria in our intestines. When this occurs the harmful bacteria displace the beneficial bacteria. This leads to digestive problems.

Probiotics are a means of restoring this bacterial balance in the digestive tract.
So how do probiotics maintain beneficial bacteria? They do this by crowding out the other microflora, the bad bacteria that cause intestinal distress. The good probiotics are found in foods like yogurt and other dairy products and used as a preservative. 

In general, probiotics are a natural way to maintain a healthy intestinal microfloral balance.

Multiple studies are now showing that overweight people have different intestinal bacteria than slim people. These bacteria cause low grade inflammation in your body that makes you gain weight and makes it more difficult to lose weight.
 
One family of bacteria in particular called firmicutes help your body to extract calories from complex sugars and deposit those calories in fat. Overweight people have 20% more of this type of bacteria than slim people. 


 The solution to this problem is balancing your normal intestinal bacteria with probiotics.  Due to our awful diets, the majority of the population has an imbalance in their gut bacteria which causes all sorts of intestinal problems . That's also another reason why you have otherwise thin people with and excessive amount of fat distributed in their mid section. This inbalance of intestinal bacteria makes is very difficult to lose this excessive weight in the mid section.

Here's how to balance your healthy bacteria in your gut:
 
Eliminate these things out of your diet and lifestyle as much as you can:
 
    -Antibiotics
    -Chlorinated water
    -Antibacterial soap
    -Agricultural chemicals
    -Pollution
 
Eat these foods to help put good bacteria in your body so that it can "weed" out the bad bacteria:
   - yogurt (the healthy kind)
   - sauerkraut
   - Fermented milk, such as kefir
   - Various pickled fermentations of cabbage, turnips, eggplant, cucumbers, onions
     squash and carrots
   - Natto (fermented soy)
 
Make sure that these are not pasteurized because this kills a lot of the good bacteria (probiotics) in it.
 
If these foods don't make a regular appearance in your body, a good probiotic can give your gut the healthy boost that it needs to help to shed that stubborn belly fat.