Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

Heather Marsh — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:32:58 GMT

I have now ordered my own kefir granules (both the sugar/water and milk types) and I am hoping to increase my levels of beneficial bacteria.

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

curious7 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:11:50 GMT

The Murdocks must have been asleep.

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

montie — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:02:17 GMT

It is nice to find a major publication reporting truth (sort of) about beneficial bacteria. However, I would like to know if live bacteria still exists in grocery store yogurt and kefir. All their dairy is pasteurized. Are live bacteria added after pasteurization? Inquiring minds would like to know.

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

CEM — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:47:25 GMT

I wonder what effect the radiation from cell phone towers are having on our balance of good and bad bacteria, considering that some bacteria have been shown to?...well, read this...

Cross Currents by Robert O. Becker M.D. – page 72.

"In 1975, Professor Richard Blakemore, also of Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, became intrigued by the strange behavior of some bacteria he was studying. Blakemore noticed that the bacteria always clustered at the north side of their culture dish. Even if he turned the dish so that they were at the south end and left it overnight, the next morning the bacteria were back at the north side. While such “magnetotrophic” bacteria had been described before, no one had ever done what Blakemore did next: he looked at them under the electron microscope. What he found was astonishing. Each bacterium contained a chain of tiny magnets! The magnets were actually crystals of the naturally magnetic mineral magnetite, the original lodestone of preliterate peoples. Somehow, the bacteria absorbed the soluble components from the water and put them together in their bodies as the insoluble crystalline chain.

Later studies showed that this arrangement was of value to these bacteria, which lived in the mud on the bottom of shallow bays and marshes. If they were moved by the tide or by storm waves, their magnetic chains were large enough (in comparison to their body size) to physically turn their bodies so that they pointed down at an angle corresponding to the direction of magnetic north. All the bacteria had to do was swim in that direction, and sooner or later they would be back in the mud. This was an interesting mechanism, but it did not contain any sophisticated information transfer. The bacteria did not “know” that north was the way to swim; they just did so. However, these observations opened up a much more interesting series of investigations."

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

Running_Stick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:26:53 GMT

Leee-la, what is your medical friend with cancer doing about it? It seems as if everyone has cancer now-a-days. Are we better at detecting it? Or, are we all going down the same path together?

re: Wall Street Journal Gives BIG Thumbs Up to Good Bacteria

Sarah Schmidt — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:06:48 GMT

try stinging nettle for your allergies

re: Wall Street Journal Agrees Probiotics are Good For You

Trinity Wellness — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:32:55 GMT

"You are still convinced your UNDERSTANDING is a
powerful contribution TO the truth, and MAKES IT WHAT IT IS." A Course in Mircles

The truth is that this article was nothing more than an infomercial for bacteria endorsed by science. In a perfect world, a vaginally delivered, breast fed infant ultimately transitioned to a raw or minimally cooked diet containing all the essential nutrients, enzymes proteins and fats it needs, will develop a balanced "inner ecosystem" of microganisms. This ecosystem will support normal human bodily function.

The extent to which the industries fawned over by the WSJ serve to destroy this natural balance with chemical farming, pasteurization, chemical food additives, antibiotics, widespread us of disinfectants, CAFO produced cattle and other unnatural acts of food processing, I hardly think that it is a good idea to let industry decide what bacteria is good seeing how they are mostly good at producing the bad. Think toxigenic E. coli, mad cow (technically a prion mediated disease) and listeria.

Eat local, raw and minimally cooked organic produce. If you are non-vegan, raw organic dairy and grass fed antibiotic and hormone free meat. Minimize antibiotics maximize fermented foods. Oh... and burn your subscription to the WSJ!