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Probiotics are small organisms that
help maintain the natural balance of other organism in the intestines.
Probiotics may be a safe and "natural" approach that helps curb the population
of unwanted bacteria that cause microbial infections. The largest group of
probiotic bacteria in the intestine is lactic acid bacteria.
A human's digestive tract ranges from 25-35 feet and houses over 400 species of
bacteria. In total there are over a 100 billion organisms in our digestive
tract. A person taking antibiotics is equivalent to pouring bleach into a fish
tank to kill an overgrowth of algae. The bleach not only kills the algae but
everything else that is present in that environment. It is necessary for people
taking antibiotics to alternate with Probiotics because antibiotics kill
beneficial bacteria along with the bacteria causing the illness.
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