Forgot:
Fermenting my own Kombucha with probiotics has helped me hugely, I think.
Get some 2 or 3 of those orange home depot buckets. Get a SCOBY off of Ebay and some bulk black english tea and sugar —the organism eats the sugar to ferment.
There are tons of YouTube vids of how to do it, here is the nutshell:
Brew super strong black tea and make it so sweet it’ll make your eyes cross. Put it in the clean orange HD bucket, put the SCOBY in that tea, then cover the bucket top with a towel and put it up in a dark closet for 2.5 weeks.
Ready to drink, or you can do a secondary ferment for a week or so by adding 15% juice of some kind to that, then give it another week.
U can use any type of juice and it’s almost free, screw that $5 per bottle crap from Whole Foods.
Drinking something cheap, fizzy and acidic somehow helped me HUGELY to lose weight (most people use Bragg’s apple cider vinegar).
You can add ginger, or whatever, get creative.
Just a tip on the buckets. They make food-safe buckets that don’t allow the leaching of chemicals from the plastic buckets.