You’re font of useful information and great links! I have downloaded and copied into word docs to re-read and mull over. There’s a lot to absorb.
I’m allergic to milk and milk products (since I was an infant). Although finding probiotics without milk is a challenge, I started taking them routinely ‘just in case’. I figured it couldn’t hurt and like many I was given lots of anti-biotics as a young child. In fact, my GP recommends probiotics when taking antibiotics; timing between antibiotic doses to maximize benefit.
Thanks for the sugar tip; although much better than I used to be, that’s something to work on.
On bad allergy days I remind myself that I don’t get the flu, and that I’ve seem recent research about IG-E lowering cancer rates.
And thanks again for all the information.
That was the one thing I was curious about. However, other people are also lactose intolerant yet want probiotics. Here are some things that might help:
Soy Kefir
Probiotic Soy Milk
Probiotic Juices - For vegans or people with allergies to milk products, fruit or vegetable juices fortified with probiotic microorganisms offer an alternative to probiotic dairy beverages. Lactobacillus bacteria cultured in oatmeal or other non-dairy media have been added to fruit juices to provide this beneficial microbe to consumers who can’t tolerate milk or yogurt.
Probiotic juices are sometimes blended with kombucha, a probiotic Asian tea. Very little research has been done on the probiotic properties of kombucha.