What;s the healthiest, most natural way to take a probiotic supplement?
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at
4:15 pm
Those yoghurt drinks have sugars and sweeteners in, and I try not to have dairy. Are pills the best way or is there a more natural option?
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You can also get some probiotic benefit from natural fermented sauerkraut that is not canned or heated. Make it at home (recipes abound) or buy Klaussen’s or Hebrew National in the deli case. Most information about dairy excludes yogurt because the fermentation changes the molecular composition somewhat. So you could try plain, unsweetened yogurt or make your own at home. There is also soy yogurt but I’ve never seen it in plain, unsweetened.
I take the Renew Life brand when I feel like I need a supplement, like if I have to resort to antibiotics or if I’ve had the flu. It is enteric coated to resist stomach acid and digests in the intestines–very effective.
Yogurt would be most natural, but I’m sure the pills will work just fine. The bacterium in the supplements aren’t exactly synthesized. They’re as real as you’d find in the yogurt.
You are pretty safe with probiotic pills. They contain the correct intestinal flora.
You are absolutely right in not taking dairy. It’s not good for us. In fact, it is terrible.
All the best!
Lisa J
There is no need to take probiotics if you are healthy. If you think you have something wrong with you, go to a medical doctor who can give the best advice for your health. If you are sick, the doctor may prescribe you proper probiotics, but you’re not you’ll be wasting a lot of money on a product which does nothing.
Many probiotic products have been tested and it’s been found that the good bacteria in them are actually dead! Since the point of a probiotic is to give you live good bacteria that means that there’s nothing in them at all.
"There are good clinical trials to suggest areas where these agents are of benefit, but other aspects of their use are blown out of proportion for the real or imagined benefit probiotics may provide."
"In several studies that have compared what is on the label with what is actually grown, not only were the organisms misidentified, sometimes the bacteria were dead"
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=344