From tragedy to triumph: one man's journey back to health...(importance of Homeostatic Soil Organisms in prevention of immunological, gastroinstestinal diseases)

Publication: Vegetarian Times

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Our Body's Intricate Connection To Soil

In the not so distant past, people used to ingest beneficial soil and plant based microbes through the food they ate, food once grown in rich, unpolluted soil. During the last 50 years however, our soil has been sterilized with pesticides and herbicides, destroying most bacteria, both bad and good. Our modern lifestyle which includes antibiotics, chlorinated water, agricultural chemicals, pollution, and poor diet is responsible for eradicating many of the important beneficial microorganisms in our bodies.

Society's separation from dirt and germs may well be the cause of the growing incidence of a wide range of maladies, according to epidemiologist David Strachan, who first advanced his over-cleanliness theory in 1989 while at Britain's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Only a theory at the time, Strachan's assertions have since been validated. New Scientist magazine reported, that researchers have recently discovered that microorganisms found in dirt influence maturation of the immune system. The lack of connection with these organisms through soil may be the reason why much of the allergies, bowel diseases, chronic fatigue, and other immune disorders are now reaching epidemic proportions.

Homeostatic Soil Organisms

Nature's 1st Probiotic

Homeostatic Soil Organisms (HSOs) were first introduced to the public through health care practitioners and natural food stores in a revolutionary product called Primal [Defense.sup.TM]. These non-mutated, probiotic colonies originated from pristine cultures, found in unpolluted soil and plants. Now cultivated in laboratories, HSOs are grown in a substrate of nutrient-rich superfoods containing naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, trace elements, live enzymes, and proteins.

"Unknown organisms make up 99.9% of all microbes in the soil," notes Jo Handelsman, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin. And one gram of soil--the weight of a packet of sugar--can contain as many as 10,000 species previously unknown to science.

Today, it is not unusual to see scientists throughout the world carrying spoons and sandwich bags wherever they go, in...

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