What is "acidophilus"?

Acidophilus is a probiotic. It is basically a bacterial culture that is essential for keeping your mucosal system from the mouth right down to the anus healthy. And you produce acidophilus actually as you get older but you still need to get acidophilus into your system and it's in usually we think of it in terms of yogurt. It's in foods like yogurt and kefir and those kinds of foods. For a total vegan they can find it in soy yogurt, you know, the next alternative is soy yogurt. It's very, very beneficial for destroying the unhealthy bacteria that grow in your colon. You have both, so you need to out-populate or over-populate the system with healthy probiotic.