Probiotic health holds vital importance for our bodies.
Trillions of germs in your gut digest the food and work with the immune system to keep you healthy. Keep them healthy and add more each day.
Keep your gut healthy to keep your body healthy.
Probiotic Health
Feed the bugs? Oh, spare me!
More than sixty trillion in my long gut
More than cells in my body
Some are mean and ugly too
They too consume calories
As they break down my food
And fight my enemies
And manufacture vitamins and such
Each of these little guys fights for existence
Eternity is a long time
Scads of enemies are after them
And life is short
The things that I eat may not be a treat
For these little guys
As they spend their short lives
At their appointed tasks
Of transforming my food
Into nutrients that I can use
The pesticides and spoilage retardants
In the food that I eat
The antibiotics are deadly
It hits them in the gut too
I must remind myself that each day
I need to send more probiotics
Into my gut to replace ones
That are expelled, or eaten
By some enemy
New ones come riding in
On raw vegetables and fruit
And things like
sauerkraut and
Live culture yogurt
Lactobacilli, bifidobacteria
And a thousand other kindred souls
I eat the probiotics which are germs
I add prebiotics to keep them healthy
And let them do their job
So that I can do mine
Probiotics, the immune system and allergies
Is an emerging field of study
The scientists get confused
The little guys do their job
And don’t communicate
On the scientific level
Good reading:An Epidemic of Absence
A New Way of Understanding Allergies
And Autoimmune Diseases,
By
Moises Velasqez Manoff
The Probiotic Revolution, Gary B. Huffnagle
Bacteria for Breakfast, Dr. Kelly Dowhower Karpa
