What are the health benefits of kefir?
Kefir’s health-giving properties are due to its probiotic bacteria and yeast. These single-celled organisms populate your intestinal system, and help to digest your food. However, the standard American diet leads to an imbalance in your intestinal flora. Unhealthy varieties of bacteria and yeast, like candida albicans, take over and crowd out the good ‘bugs’. Your food no longer digests properly, and all kinds of health problems ensue. When you were born, your intestines were sterile — they contained no bacteria or yeast of any kind. Then you were inoculated with colostrum from mother’s milk, which gave you your first dose of probiotics. Drinking kefir is like getting re-inoculated with al the probiotics your system needs to digest food properly. Several members of the Greg’s Grains group are using kefir to treat a variety of illnesses.
