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		Microbial therapy - more relevant than ever




		Interesting facts about bacteria Bacteria - friends and enemies Bacteria as friendly helpers Disruptions are part of the daily run of things Microbial therapy and immune system regulation Microbial therapy: Not a quick cure but long-term stimulation of the body's own ability to heal itself Microbial therapy with Symbioflor® preparations Microbial therapy: its areas of application Microbial therapy with children
		1. Interesting facts about bacteria Like algae and fungi, bacteria are classified as microorganisms. The designation microorganism refers to their small size. In general individual microorganisms cannot be seen with the naked eye although there are numerous exceptions to this statement among the algae and higher fungi. What the average layman knows about bacteria in the main is restricted to the fact that they cause damage to man, animals and plants and destroy food. In fact, however, the negative properties of bacteria are far outweighed in most cases by the useful work they do. Like the other microorganisms, they perform a vital role in maintaining the biological balance on our planet.

		2. Bacteria - friends and enemies When the talk is of bacteria, one thinks first of all about pathogens. Thus, for example, bacteria are known as the initiators of festering tonsillitis, pneumonia, and salmonella infections of the intestines. Few of us know anything about the useful properties of numerous other bacteria. In the course of the development of the world, a very marked symbiosis has been built up between man and the bacteria. The high point of this "co-existence" is represented by the human microflora, with all their different varieties and species. There are some one hundred million million (100,000,000,000,000) in the intestines alone. In terms of numbers, they outnumber the body's own cells by a factor of more than two. This point alone makes clear that the very great majority of these bacteria live in harmony with man and undertake thereby very many important tasks, without the fulfilling of which a human being is not capable of living.

		3. Bacteria as friendly helpers When the intestinal flora are intact, they prevent dangerous bacteria, that have been taken into the body with food, adhering to the intestinal wall and being able to develop there their pathogenic properties. In addition a large number of the bacteria belonging to the intact intestinal flora play a very important role in building up and maintaining a person's own immune system. Only when these bacteria are present is the lymphatic tissue of the intestinal mucous membrane, which forms an important part of the immune system, in a position to carry out its task that is so vital for man, namely that of protecting him from disease. Substances are transported continuously from the intestine into the intracorporal region, where they are combined with cells of the body's own immune system. A well trained immune system is capable of warding off most harmful influences and, in this way, of keeping the human body healthy. In addition the intestinal mucous membrane is provided with nutrition and important vitamins (e.g. vitamin K, vitamin B12) and the functions of the intestine are regulated through the metabolism of the useful bacteria.

		4. Disruptions are part of the daily run of things In many cases harmful environmental influences as well as the effects of incorrect nutrition, negative stress and medicaments such as antibiotics, purgatives and cortisone render man's intestinal mucous membrane and intestinal flora incapable of carrying out their important functions properly. 5. Microbial therapy and immune system regulation Microbial therapy influences the intestinal mucous membrane and its immunologically active components in such a way that they can once again carry out their tasks in a proper manner. Serving this therapy are both living and dead bacteria, whereby in both cases these bacteria do not possess any pathogenic properties. Where microbial medicaments are taken, the body's natural defensive powers are normalized and its metabolic functions strengthened.

		6. Microbial therapy: Not a quick cure but long-term stimulation of the body's own ability to heal itself In the case of chronic diseases, microbial therapy is to be understood as a long-term therapy; in other words it should be employed over a period of several months. In a gentle manner it regulates the body's defensive powers and improves its metabolic functions. The body gets back its own ability to ward off illness.

		7. Microbial therapy with Symbioflor® preparations The Symbioflor® preparations contain both living and dead bacteria. When taken, these "train" the body's complete immune system. Treatment with the Symbioflor® preparations is based on three products, namely Pro-Symbioflor®, Symbioflor® 1 and Symbioflor® 2, which are employed one after the other in a progressive manner. The reason for the phasewise application of the preparations lies in the differences in strength of the effects each exercises on the immune system. Accordingly it is to be recommended in most cases that treatment is commenced with Pro-Symbioflor®, which contains only dead bacteria. Then, building up from this, Symbioflor® 1 and Symbioflor® 2, which both contain living bacteria, are introduced in the subsequent course of the therapy.

		8. Microbial therapy: its areas of application Microbial therapy with Symbioflor® preparations suggests itself with all illnesses that go hand in hand with a disrupted immune system: Acute and chronic infections Disorders of the upper respiratory tracts (inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, adenoiditis and bronchitis) Allergies Skin disorders Disorders of the gastro-intestinal tract (flatulence, constipation, diarrhoea and Colon irritabile)

		9. Microbial therapy with children Microbial therapy is a very gentle mode of treatment with few side effects. For these reasons a therapy with Symbioflor® is especially suitable for children. Here not only the symptoms in the foreground of illness are combated but also and at the same time - via the increase in the body's self-healing powers - the "root of the matter" is got under control and eliminated.