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Natren's January newsletter, Ancient Arts
Of Health And Healing Meet Modern
Science, introduced our new back-tobasics
collaboration with the esteemed
Ayurvedic practitioner, Sivakumar Varma.
Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest systems
to promote health. Ayurveda's health
promoting practices originated in India
over 5000 years ago,
and have continued to
evolve and to gain
recognition and respect
across the world for
centuries.
Ayurveda is a holistic system of health
promoting practices, focusing on the
entire person - integrating body, mind
and spirit. The emphasis is on creating
and maintaining physical and emotional
balance and well being.
Sivakumar Varma, an
Ayurvedic practitioner and
founder of one of Canada's
largest Ayurvedic centers,
Revitalize Centre, teaches
that the ultimate health of
the digestive tract begins in the small intestine,
as Natren founder and probiotic expert
Natasha Trenev has long maintained.
BENEFITS OF FRIENDLY
BACTERIA HAVE A LONG
HISTORY
Both our growing scientific knowledge of
the health benefits of probiotics and the
ancient wisdom from Ayurveda inform us
that optimal levels of friendly bacteria,
(probiotic bacteria) in the gastrointestinal
system maintain proper gastrointestinal
health and efficient digestive
system function.
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The health benefits of
probiotics were well
known in ancient cultures,
and there are
records of their application,
usage and recommended
daily intake.
Lactobacillus bacteria
were used to make healthpromoting
fermented foods such as
yogurt, kefir, miso and sauerkraut.
"In this day and
age, individual and
environmental stresses
are more prolific than
ever - and probiotic
supplementation helps
provide the support
needed to maintain
digestive health"
THE VALUE OF CULTURE
Traditionally, a few select houses in a
village would take the responsibility for
keeping a master yogurt culture viable
and available from generation to generation.
From this specialized yogurt
culture, experienced Ayurvedic practitioners
used a variety of applications to
help support digestion.
Ayurvedic practitioners highly recommend
dairy products to their patients, as
milk is considered the pure love of the
cow for her calf. For example, buttermilk
warmed with curry
and/or coriander leaves,
turmeric, ginger and
salt is a time-honored
Ayurvedic application
for occasional indigestion.
Natren is one
of the few custom
probiotic manufacturers
to still use dairy as a
growth medium for a select
number of beneficial probiotic
products for promoting health.
Dairy milk is one of the original foods that
these beneficial bacteria thrive on, which
is why they are called Lactobacillus (Lacto
= milk, bacillus = bacteria), meaning milk
bacteria. Using milk as a growth medium
produces the strongest probiotic characteristics
in beneficial bacteria such
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as
L. acidophilus DDS-1. If you are vegan
or allergic to dairy - Natren also offers
an outstanding line of vegan dairy free
beneficial probiotic products.
LAYERS OF HEALTH
The gastrointestinal tract is complex and
changeable. A diet rich in fermented
foods, fruits and vegetables, (and low in
refined carbohydrates) enhances friendly
bacteria levels. In this day and age,
individual and environmental stresses
are more prolific than ever - and probiotic
supplementation helps provide the support
needed to maintain digestive health.
Periodic gut support with a strong probiotic
system - like Natren's amazing 3-in-1
HEALTHY TRINITY® - supports the
health and function of the intestinal
tract. It can go one step further with the
addition of Natren's HEALTHY START
SYSTEM® to create a probiotic layering
program. Can't wait to get started? Call
one of our Probiotic Consultants for your
customized probiotic system program
today. This layering system is available
only from Natren probiotic supplements.
Accept no substitutes.

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