In a randomized controlled trial, the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis—used in many probiotic products, including Dannon’s Activia yogurts—did nothing to improve bowel health in people with constipation, according to data from a randomized triple-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
A couple of years back I read of a study which concluded that because we are all so unique, there is no one size fits all probiotic. It’s a crap shoot if you want to find one that works for you.
Also there are supposed to be whole probiotic worlds in our gut. One species is nothing.
“Crap shoot….”
I see what you did there.
Stomach acid is meant to kill anything, whether it’s a pathogen or beneficial probiotic. Yogurt’s probiotics shouldn’t survive the stomach if all is going well.
I had severe gut dysfunction due to multiple parasites and pathogens from spending a year in India. I had dysbiosis, IBS-C and SIBO all diagnosed, and for five years I developed a debilitating autoimmune condition that made eating nearly impossible without intense systemic inflammation, brain fog, body pain, etc.
In addition to multiple pill based probiotics I did literally every home fermentation project I could figure out; kraut, kimchi, yogurt, kefir, etc. None of them helped one bit. I eventually took a double capsule probiotic designed to survive the stomach intact and open in the small intestine and my symptoms were mostly resolved within a week.
I wish this was more common knowledge. We are just starting to understand how crucial gut health is to overall health, including mental health, and basically everyone gets their gut biome carpet bombed with antibiotics on the regular.
Stomach acid is meant to kill anything, whether it’s a pathogen or beneficial probiotic. Yogurt’s probiotics shouldn’t survive the stomach if all is going well.
This is misinformation.
I had SIBO
Not likely. https://humanmicrobiome.info/sibo/
You’re getting your information from poor quality sources.
I eventually took a double capsule probiotic designed to survive the stomach intact and open in the small intestine and my symptoms were mostly resolved within a week.
Almost certainly placebo or random luck. There are a plethora of probiotic and FMT studies that show it can have significant impacts when you take it directly orally:
We are just starting to understand how crucial gut health is to overall health, including mental health, and basically everyone gets their gut biome carpet bombed with antibiotics on the regular.
Agree. I’ve done FMT from 15+ donors and haven’t yet reversed the damage from antibiotics. When I would share studies about this on reddit I would get viciously attacked by people who seemed addicted to antibiotics.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=does+stomach+acid+kill+all+bacteria
i mean it certain kills a lot but might not something useful be left over? how would we test for that
Can u recommend the probiotic you used? Thanks
I’m not the person you replied to, but I recently recovered from a multi-month case of acute gastritis and I felt that the Culturelle OTC probiotic pill regimen I took helped
Yes, Culturelle has been shown to be effective for certain conditions, and it’s NOT “double capsule probiotic designed to survive the stomach intact and open in the small intestine”. So what the previous commenter said is misinformation.
The tip off for me was “acid is meant to kill anything, whether it’s a pathogen or beneficial probiotic. Yogurt’s probiotics shouldn’t survive” followed by “took a double capsule probiotic designed to survive the stomach intact and open in the small intestine.”
Which is it, does the stomach acid kill everything or is there a pill that can survive that only to dissolve in your intestines?
Inject yoghurt up my bum, gotcha
Given the statistically significant results of fecal transplants… have we tried shoving the yoghurt into the the other end?
Some people have. It doesn’t work like that. Don’t put food or probiotics up your butt. FMT can be taken orally.
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What a headline
really started it on a brown note