Probiotics and a Healthy Digestive System - Obesity

Thanks to Svetoslav ‏@Antraxx11 for a fantastic article:

5 Surprising Culprits Behind Obesity and Weight Gain

This post points out some significant findings concerning the connections between obesity, antibiotics and gastrointestinal health.

From the article:

Antìbiotics Could be to Blame for Excess Weight
As surprising as it may seem, antibiotics have actually be pinpointed as being a promoter for obesity as well as diabetes and metabolic syndrome. While antibiotics succeed ìn destroying bad bacteria  which is their intended use, they also destroy good bacteria in the gut known as friendly flora. This lack of bacterial discrimination leads to a shortage in friendly gut bacteria which are responsible for regulating overall health, including weight management.
A good probiotic is a necessity for maintaining good health, and as it seems, controlling our weight as well.
Probiotics are key to maintaining a regular digestive tract that consistently removes waste and toxins.
Probiotics are your first line of defense and are critical for a normal immune response to harmful invaders.
Probiotics make vitamins, extract nutrients from food and ensure proper absorption of nutrients.

 If you are already on a daily regimen which includes probiotics, that is excellent. But, be sure that it is performing the way you expect in providing you the most benefit.

Health starts in your gut. It’s where harmful invaders are disarmed, energy is extracted from food, and toxins are removed. These important duties are performed by probiotics – the trillions of friendly bacteria that live in your intestines. You’re health depends on their health.

Stress, poor nutrition, prescription drugs, alcohol, and caffeine all compromise this colony, and your health. QORE Probiotics give you billions of new, fresh, healthy bacteria, delivered right to your gut. Our world-class delivery system is superior to any other method for keeping the bacteria alive until they reach your intestine where they can thrive and multiply.

Studies have uncovered the fact that most probiotics on the market have a very high percentage of dead organisms, making them useless. Fragile probiotics that require refrigeration make it even more difficult to thrive from the factory to your gut. Many companies ignore the fact that probiotics die in stomach acid and offer liquid, capsule, or food-infused probiotics that have a low probability of making it into the gut alive.

Qore Probiotic is delivered in the protective Trisphere® capsule, ensuring the probiotics are properly shielded from temperature fluctuations, external environment, and stomach acid. Laboratory results demonstrate Qore is up to twice as effective for keeping probiotics alive and healthy until they’re delivered to their new home in your intestine. 

Qivana's Qore Probiotic promotes a regular and healthy digestive system by replenishing your intestinal flora with proven strains of human-source bacteria.