Thanks for the interesting article.
ProBiotics are wonderful. I started taking them two years ago while taking anti-biotics after a root canal.
The beneficial effects are amazing.
ProBiotics are inexpensive (under $15 per month) and available at any good health food store.
I have a digestive system that is screwed up enough that I am disabled and limited in my ability to function in any fashion. My gastroentorologist reccommended probiotics because of the success other patients of his had experienced. He admitted he knew nothing about them. I was able to get in contact with a nutrionist who got me on them. The nutrionist had had similar problems plus rheumatory arthritis. The probiotics enabled him to get control of the digestive problems and seem to have helped with the arthritis too. I was fortunate to have a doctor and nutrionist that worked together
Anyone who has ever taken antibiotics will benefit from taking probiotics. Anyone who has taken a lot of antibiotics will really benefit from probiotics.
Taking them has helped clear up a number of health problems for me. I've had two MD's tell me to stay on them. I especially don't want to be without probiotics during a course of antibiotic treatment.
I'm glad to see the word is getting out.
Try saying that name three times fast. :^P
Gotta love Tagalog. Malang kita, baby.
As for probiotics, they are basically a way of restoring what many people lose in modern diets.
As the article points out, losses of intestinal flora can be very hazardous to your health.
Yet another good reason not to take antibiotics for each and every medical complaint. Sometimes alternatives are wiser choices.
Our family just started using an array of natural herbs/probiotics dor health issues along with accupuncture.
My high uric acid levels are down and my Dr says great so I don't take the phamacudical script he wanted me to take.
The compny we use is Metagenics.
Pain reliever herb capsules wonderful as I cannot take aleve,asprin ect due to past stomach bleeding.
The medical food I can't handle daily but 2x's a week works and it is supposed to even out my blood sugars and help with absorbing nutreints.
And the biggee MORE WATER!
I stopped eating proccessed foods a few years ago to heal ulcers and reoccuring colon infections.
What's amusing here is the "surprise, surprise" attitude.
Anyone who has had half a toe in the health-by-natural-means field has been aware of this stuff for eons.
Meanwhile the drug corporations despise anything unpatentable that works and they are not shy about seeing that it or it's reputation is destroyed by false spin or by buying out the small companies and squashing the stuff that works.
I take Probiotics from time to time as needed and they have helped me get rid of IBS that I had suffered from for at least 10 years. I am a believer.
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