I calculated Dr. Mercolas as being one of the best price per billion organisms on the market. I started his brand recently, and it has improved by bowels after switching from Ayush brand which I was on. I take lots of antibiotics.
~David On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Del <[email protected]> wrote: > For most of her life, my wife has been battling IBS. > I always believed that a probiotic should solve the problem. > We tried many (including the HSO). Nothing worked. > Then we tried VSL#3. > IBS gone within about two months on one packet per day. > Now she gets it by prescription so that our drug coverage will defray the > considerable cost. > We think eventually she will be able to stop taking it and still remain > stable. > If you order it, make sure to order from the company itself so that it will > be shipped with ice packs. > VSL#3 should always be refrigerated. > > Del > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Jason R Eaton <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:04 AM > *Subject:* CS>Probiotics > > Hi Steve: > > I'm always playing around with various probies. Sometimes, one must > consider how powerful of a porbiotic formula one actsually needs. I'm NOT > an expert on the topic, but I do emmensely enjoy the research. > > Dr. Mercola's probiotics, which contain ten strains, are desigend to > survive the digestive tract. These are just your run-of-the-mill > probiotics, and a touch pricey, but at least one knows the job will get > done. > > The first of the "big guns" I play with are HSO's, homeostatic soil > organisms, offered by Garden Life under the brand name Primal Defense. > These are very controversial little creatures have no problems surviving > through the digestive system. These types of organisms have come under fire > primarily due to modern science's inability to predict the long term effects > of HSO's. However, before disregarding them as potentially profound healing > agents, the small scale studies done should be carefully considered. > > http://www.crohns-disease-probiotics.com/HSOs.html > > http://miracleii-4u.com/hsos-clinical-studies.htm > > > But my personal favorite probies I make myself, from Effective > Microorgansims. THe EM master culture, from Japan, is quite affordable, and > is a blend of microorganisms designed as a support system to keep one type > of very special microorganism alive: Two strains of photosynthetic > bacteria, Rhodopseudomonas palustris and Rhodobacter sphaeroides > > > http://www.teraganix.com/Effective-Microorganisms-History-and-Availability-s/194.htm > > These amazing little creatures (if you can call them that) don't often > appear at the Earth's surface anymore... Not since the Earth's atomosphere > began containing oxygen. > > Every last researcher that I've corresponded with has been nothing short of > amazed at the various applications of EM and A-EM. Ongoing research > continues: > > http://emrojapan.com/ > > ...however, very little has been published in English about the health and > healing potential of using EM-based supplements as probiotics. That said, > in the worst case scenarios with people I correspond with, when their > chronic digestive conditions (and we're talking hospitalization level > conditions) respond to nothing else, a combination of EM therapy and clay > therapy has, at the very least, stabilized even the most serious cases of > IBS, Crohns, and other non- or mis-diagnosed conditions of the lower > intestines. > > Whatever probiotic one chooses, it takes about four weeks to see how they > will compete with whatever else is in the colon. When the state of the > colon is returned to normal, an individual will always effortlessly go to > the bathroom once for every major meal eaten the day prior. > > So it really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your > supplementation. I also make kombucha on occassion, and use Kefir, but I > don't see either as being powerful enough to act to restore serious > digestive disorders. > > Kind Regards, > > Jason > > >
