Has anyone ever tried the one that Dr. Mercola is pushing?
http://www.mercola.com/products/complete-probiotics
Here are a couple of pages about Lactobacillus sporogenes:
http://www.lactospore.com/benifit.htm
http://www.lactospore.com/limit.htm
http://www.lactospore.com/clinical.htm
I've always wondered "why take probiotics if the stomach acid just kills them".
Anyway, I was wondering what thoughts some of you might have about them.
Love & Thanks,
Shirley
Question - Probiotics
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Question - Probiotics
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While we're analyzing probiotics, can anyone tell me why the "ideal" balance between "good" and "bad" bacteria in the gut is generally considered to be 85% to 15%, rather than 100% to 0%?
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Re: Question - Probiotics
Because not all of them die, and in some of us we don't produce enough stomach acid to kill as many, some probiotics are coated so that the acid doesn't break it down as quickly and finally because they don't even need to be alive to do good. The last item is a somewhat recent finding.starfire wrote: I've always wondered "why take probiotics if the stomach acid just kills them".
This is a very good question, and I'm wondering a lot more about this myself. My guess would be that the definition of "bad" is very open to debate. Some of the bacteria I was told were bad are not always seen as such. What I think is most important is the variety, they find more variety of different kinds of bacteria in healthy folks than sick folks, and part of that variety is also "bad" bacteria. I would also guess that getting to 0% would be very difficult if not impossible, especially in the long term. And especially if the thing that caused dysbiosis is not addressed.tex wrote:While we're analyzing probiotics, can anyone tell me why the "ideal" balance between "good" and "bad" bacteria in the gut is generally considered to be 85% to 15%, rather than 100% to 0%?
Tex
Shirley,
If I remember correctly, from reading the first article that you cited, the probiotic that Dr. Mercola promotes is coated, (encapsulated).
Love,
Tex
If I remember correctly, from reading the first article that you cited, the probiotic that Dr. Mercola promotes is coated, (encapsulated).
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
