Bacteria in your colon are referred to by many different names – probiotics, good or bad bacteria, beneficial bacteria, acidophilus, disbiosis, micro flora, proflora. friendly flora, and unfriendly bacteria.I simple use good and bad bacteria to refer to all bacteria that exist in small intestine and your colon.
Your colon has both good and bad bacteria. The good bacteria maintain health of your colon by keeping bad bacteria from multiplying and reducing constipation.
Most people have bad bacteria as dominant condition in their colon. You can see this by illnesses that exist throughout world. Most people later in their life suffer from diseases that resulted from colon neglect and abuse.
Bad bacteria multiples when you,
* Consume poisons such as pollution, pesticides, food additives such as preservatives, coloring, so on.
* Drink alcohol
* Eat processed foods
* Have excess anxiety
* Lack fiber in your diet
* Use birth control pills
* Use drugstore laxative
* Use drugs and medication
Good bacteria in your colon consists of hundred of species of bacteria. The good bacteria are most active in a pH of 5.9 to 6.9- an acidic environment. This makes for a healthy colon.
Your colon serves as a home for good bacteria, which ferment specific carbohydrates, which in turn keep your colon environment slightly acidic. The acid environment favors good bacteria and keeps bad bacteria and pathogens from multiplying.
The bad bacteria create an alkaline environment and are most active in a pH of 7.1 to 7.9
Again, good bacteria creates an acidic environment and are most active in a pH of 5.9 to 6.9
Acidophilus and Bifidus are main good bacteria that exist in your colon. The ascending colon, on right side of your abdomen area, has most bacteria. The quantity of bacteria becomes less in transverse colon and lesser in descending colon. Eventually, little bacteria is found in sigmoid and rectum.
When good beneficial bacteria is dominant, in your colon, it prevents spread of disease from various organisms – parasites, bacteria, viruses, fungi. The specific organisms
Shigella, salmonella, viruses, encephalitis, protozoan, amebas, staph, herpes, flu, cold viruses, comphylobacter, and CMV,