We’ve hear a lot in the news about micro diets and how they can help the body. Did you know that adding a few more nutrients to your diet can help your skin to look younger? Let’s learn more about probiotics.

What Are Probiotics?

They are bacteria, but the good kind. They live in the body in the digestive tract, namely the intestines. The intestines play a large role in your health. It is here that food is broken down even further and absorbed through the walls of the intestines to be carried to other parts of the body. It is also here that that undigested red meat they talk about in the news makes its home.

When the intestines aren’t functioning well, the rest of your body will show it. This can mean lackluster hair, brittle nails, and sallow skin. Toxins in the body can come to rest in the intestines and also the liver, a filtering organ. Free radicals are one of these types of toxins that can lead to organ damage and illnesses such as cancer and the like.

Probiotics come from mostly dairy foods like yogurt and fermented soy and grains. You may have heard about bifidus regularis on yogurt commercials, or lactobacillus. They are found as live cultures in dairy and do all sorts of neat and positive things.

For one, probiotics help you digest your food better. Better digestion means a cleaner colon that is devoid of the toxins that can make us sick and look years older. Without diarrhea or constipation, you feel a lot better and less bloated as you go about your day. Probiotics also help manufacture some of the vitamins that we need each day for cellular health: vitamin K (potassium) and the B vitamins – specifically B12.

Benefits of Probiotics

So what can probiotics do to help you look younger? They can boost your immune system. This means you fight disease better. When none of those nasty bad bacteria and viruses can get in, your body can make the most of the antioxidants found in your food to fight aging: clear up your skin, strengthen your nails and nourish hair follicles.

These same bacteria can also help the liver. Naturally, the liver cleanses the blood, removing harmful toxins. When the liver gets overloaded by environmental toxins, stress and poor lifestyle choices, it shows on the skin (liver spots, moles, acne and the like). Probiotics help the liver to do its job more efficiently and clear your skin.

When your body can absorb and use all the nutrients from food, you gain energy. Also, you are less hungry as they can help fight cravings for sugar and fat. That can aid in weight-loss programs.

Probiotic bacteria live in the body in the intestinal tract. They can be overwhelmed by bad bacteria if we are not careful. Ingest as many probiotics as you can to tip the balance of the scale in your favor.