What\'s the Bacteria and How Bacteria Can Cure Your Acne?
Did you know that your body is actually swarming with bacteria - and that it's a good thing?

At any given time you have ten times more bacteria in your body than you do cells. Some of the bacteria are good (probiotic) and
some are harmful (pathological). The bacteria residing inside you are not parasites. You live in complete symbiosis with them.
Beneficial bacteria perform many useful tasks, and your health would seriously deteriorate without them.

What is critical to acne and your health is the balance of beneficial and harmful bacteria - not the total number of bacteria.

Let's take a brief look at what this has to do with acne...

Acne develops as a result of toxins creating fertile conditions in your skin for acne-causing bacteria to multiply. Those same
toxins may also interfere with normal functioning of your organs.
This may cause your organs to overproduce certain hormones that actually increase sebum production. More sebum and more acne-causing bacteria combine to produce more pimples.

The next logical step is to look at how these toxins enter your body in the first place.

Some of them come from external sources (e.g. pollution, chemicals in skin care products, chemicals and additives in food and water). More important than toxins from external sources are toxins created inside your body.

Undigested food in your gut is perhaps the most significant source of toxins. Imagine what would happen if you left a piece
of meat on the kitchen table during a hot summer day. It doesn't take long for the meat to turn grey and begin to stink. The
bacteria in the meat putrefy (eat) the meat.

The same thing happens in your gut, though with one difference.
Your gut is a far more fertile (warm and humid) environment for bacteria. As a result of this there is a significant number of bacteria in your small intestine and colon and therefore the food putrefies much faster there.

The harmful bacteria in your small intestine and, more importantly, in your colon actually feast on undigested food.
They create poisonous toxins as a result of their metabolic activity.

Normally the beneficial bacteria in your gut would be able to neutralize these toxins and keep the harmful bacteria at bay.
However, if you continually feed the harmful bacteria with undigested food in large quantities, they start to multiply and
gradually gain ground over the beneficial bacteria. As a result of this more and more toxins are produced in your colon and your
body's ability to neutralize them weakens.

If this is allowed to continue, these toxins will eventually leak from your gut and eventually overwhelm your liver's ability to
neutralize them. This is when you start to develop persistent acne and your health begins to deteriorate.

What causes indigestion is beyond the scope of this article, but the main culprits would be improperly combined food and processed, enzyme poor food. When eaten together some foods
(proteins and carbohydrates for example) interfere