Why you need bacteria in your colon

Written by Rudy Silva


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 allrepparttar bacteria that exist inrepparttar 142794 small intestine and your colon.

Your colon has both good and bad bacteria. The good bacteria maintainrepparttar 142795 health of your colon by keepingrepparttar 142796 bad bacteria from multiplying and reducing constipation.

Most people have bad bacteria asrepparttar 142797 dominant condition in their colon. You can see this byrepparttar 142798 illnesses that exist throughoutrepparttar 142799 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 forrepparttar 142800 good bacteria, which ferment specific carbohydrates, which in turn keep your colon environment slightly acidic. The acid environment favorsrepparttar 142801 good bacteria and keepsrepparttar 142802 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,repparttar 142803 good bacteria creates an acidic environment and are most active in a pH of 5.9 to 6.9

Acidophilus and Bifidus arerepparttar 142804 main good bacteria that exist in your colon. The ascending colon, onrepparttar 142805 right side of your abdomen area, hasrepparttar 142806 most bacteria. The quantity of bacteria becomes less inrepparttar 142807 transverse colon and lesser inrepparttar 142808 descending colon. Eventually, little bacteria is found inrepparttar 142809 sigmoid and rectum.

When good beneficial bacteria is dominant, in your colon, it preventsrepparttar 142810 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,

Electroencephalograms (EEG): Catching a Brain Wave

Written by Gary Cordingley


In this era of rapidly developing technology for medical imaging, one test that might seem downright old-fashioned is an electroencephalogram (EEG) or brain-wave test. But by its very nature,repparttar EEG test will continue to occupy a valuable niche in medical diagnosis that brain-imaging tests—like CT scans and MRI scans—will never fill.

Rather than making pictures ofrepparttar 142770 brain's anatomy, EEGs evaluaterepparttar 142771 brain's physiology. So while imaging tests won't replace electroencephalograms, EEGs won't replace imaging tests, either. The testing methods look atrepparttar 142772 brain from completely different points of view, each valuable in its own way.

Broken into its parts,repparttar 142773 term electroencephalogram means "electrical brain recording."

Hans Berger, a German scientist, gotrepparttar 142774 ball rolling in 1924 withrepparttar 142775 first recordings of human brain-waves. Since then,repparttar 142776 basic principles of recording EEGs have remainedrepparttar 142777 same, butrepparttar 142778 electronics have gotten better—and smaller. In an EEG recording, tiny voltage-fluctuations fromrepparttar 142779 brain are picked up by a standard array of metal disks attached torepparttar 142780 scalp and are then amplified electronically in order to create a permanent recording.

If you are old enough, you might rememberrepparttar 142781 1960s fascination with alpha waves which people tried to enhance via biofeedback devices. Alpha waves are rhythmic brain-signals oscillating between 8 and 13 times per second that can be measured fromrepparttar 142782 back ofrepparttar 142783 head during quiet wakefulness.

Additional voltage-rhythms encountered during clinical recordings include theta and delta waves that oscillate more slowly than alpha waves, and beta waves that oscillate more rapidly. All four rhythms can be seen in normal states of alertness, drowsiness or sleep, and should berepparttar 142784 same on both sides ofrepparttar 142785 brain.

The premier use of EEGs is to evaluate people with known or suspected epilepsy (seizure disorders). Seizures are highly electrical events inrepparttar 142786 brain that cause temporary alterations inrepparttar 142787 patient's consciousness, perceptions or behavior.

In healthy circumstances,repparttar 142788 brain's approximately 20 billion brain cells perpetually signal each other via electrical impulses. Collectively, these impulses traveling among networks of brain-cells arerepparttar 142789 means by whichrepparttar 142790 brain performs its functions—like perceiving, pondering, remembering, calculating and deciding. A poetic scientist describedrepparttar 142791 brain and its normal functioning as "an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one; a shifting harmony of subpatterns."

But in epileptic attacks, salvo upon salvo of excessive discharges overwhelmrepparttar 142792 brain's circuits and disrupt their normal functions. Suddenly,repparttar 142793 enchanted loom's patterns are no longer meaningful or harmonious.

A seizure-in-progress is readily detected by an EEG recording. However, most patients under evaluation for seizures don't obligerepparttar 142794 doctor by having an attack during a typical 30-90 minute recording session. Fortunately, for purposes of diagnosis this is not usually necessary. Tell-tale changes in brain-waves are often present duringrepparttar 142795 periods between attacks—whilerepparttar 142796 patient feels normal—that can reveal a tendency to epilepsy and even identify specific sub-types.

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