Author reviewed over 900 human clinical studies, and cited 473 studies and reports to arrive at the conclusion that a lack of probiotics may explain why some are more susceptible to increased bacterial and viral infections.

Probiotics may well explain why some seemingly healthy children and adults succumb to fatal or near fatal flu or bacterial infections, while others do not. With infectious disease rates increasing around the world, ranging from tuberculosis to the H1N1 influenza, probiotics provide a reasonable explanation for why some people contract potentially fatal infections while others have mild or fewer infections of the same virus, with similar exposure.

In Probiotics - Protection Against Infection: Using Nature’s Tiny Warriors to Stem Infection and Fight Disease, author Casey Adams, Ph.D. lays out the evidence that shows that the balance between probiotics and pathogenic bacteria within the body determines the level of immunity against invading bacteria, fungi or viruses.

Immunity researchers are increasingly realizing that probiotic colonies provide the most critical part of our body’s immune system. “Probiotic colonies make up over 70% of a healthy immune system. This is specifically relevant when we consider viral and bacterial infections,” said Dr. Adams.

In Probiotics - Protection Against Infection, Adams illustrates that significant evidence confirms that lower probiotics populations relate directly to higher rates of a variety of diseases, including many bacterial infections, viral infections, and a number of disease pathologies throughout the body. “The germ theory was ultimately proven wrong by the discovery of probiotics, and continued peer-reviewed research has indicated that the balance of probiotics within the body, consistent with an unburdened immune system, is one of the greatest determining factors for counteracting infection.”

Probiotics - Protection Against Infection: Using Nature’s Tiny Warriors to Stem Infection and Fight Disease is available through Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and select bookstores.

To contact the author, please send an email to: cadams@healthyprobiotics.org.