Beyond. Health and Wellness Magazine June 2016 | Page 8

antibiotics because this is a yeast strain that won’t be killed off by the antibiotic and then make sure to add in a probiotic immediately after that has a lot of different strains. 6. any possible chronic infections or Candida (yeast) infections. 8. I know I said this before but TAKE A PREBIOTIC FOR LIFE! The 100 trillion microbe friends that we carry around with us everyday are constantly under attack. Replenish them with probiotics. Know your source for meat. Remember that 80% of antibiotics in our country goes towards the agricultural business. Therefore, you get antibiotics in your diet if you are eating We are learning more and more each commercial meat sources. day how important our microbiome health is to our general wellness and Take out any foods that cause disease prevention. That is why one inflammation and wreck havoc on of the most important things that you the digestive system. Along the same can do for your general health is take a lines, also balance the gut and remove probiotic everyday. 7. “Ten years ago a light bulb went off. If farmers are purposefully feeding antibiotics to livestock to fatten them up, is it possible that the antibiotics we’re giving to our kids are doing the same thing? It is quite plausible.” - Dr. Martin Blaser, director of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University By the age of 20, the average American has taken about 17 courses of antibiotics. 8