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It's a bit alarming how much misinformation there is on the Internet about candida. It seems that some claims are copied from website to website with no regard to scientific accuracy. I had always assumed (due to excessive marketing it seems) that regular probiotics are ineffective without an enteric coating because they get killed off by the low pH acid in the stomach. And yet when I actually took the time to research this, it turns out that there really was no hard evidence to back this claim, and I've even found some recent studies disproving it entirely.
In one of the studies, the participants' fecal samples were tested negative for specific bacterial strains at the beginning of the study and then tested positive after they ate yogurt with those strains in it. This proved that those strains effectively survived the stomach acid and made it all the way through the small and large intestines.
The lesson - be skeptical about what you read on the Internet! Make sure there's solid evidence backing it up.
Probiotics: determinants of survival and growth in the gut
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/73/2/399s.short
Survival of Yogurt Bacteria in the Human Gut
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1489325/
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- Re: Probiotics survive stomach acid.... #75644
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This is a reply to # 2,111,672Totally agree. I always knew it was bunk. Acidophilus actually means "acid loving". Good post.
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This is a reply to # 2,140,570Think of the name as "Acido-phil"
before vowels phil-, word-forming element meaning "loving, fond of, tending to," from Greek philo-, comb. form of philos "dear" (adj.), "friend" (n.), from philein "to love," of unknown origin. Productive of a great many compounds in ancient Greek.
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- Re: Probiotics survive stomach acid.... Adamjetking
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,111,672Did you know that the human digestive system contains over 400 different species of micro-organisms? On average, an adult human carries about 3 to 4 kgs of bacterial gut flora. This represents an enormous number of bacteria. The reason we have so many bacteria inside us is because we require them for many beneficial actions within the body.
In order for us to maintain a healthy digestive system we need to ensure that we have lots of "good" bacteria. These friendly bacteria have a number of important roles:
Improving your digestion;
Producing vitamins;
Relieving symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS);
Detoxifying chemicals;
Producing nutrients to repair the gut lining;
Increasing resistance to infections and regulating the immune function;
Preventing the overgrowth of bad bacteria.
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This is a reply to # 2,111,672This is a great post.
We all need to keep in mind how companies market their products. Its always critical to question everything and DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!- Re: Probiotics survive stomach acid.... LymegirlPA
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This is a reply to # 2,112,145Just from personal experience, my milk kefir seems to work best if I add a bit of heavy cream. I've been experimeting with animal fats & have found them to be hugely beneficial in assisting my probiotics. Even coconut oil didn't work as well (for me). This can pose a quandry (sp?) for those who don't want to eat animal products, but I'm just sharing what seems to help me personally.
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This is a reply to # 2,111,672Yeah, the burden of proof is on companies that insist that enteric coating is actually better. We do know that all the cultured and fermented foods were already benefiting people before pills and enteric coating ever came along.
The only possibility that enteric coated probiotics are more effected (and I have not seen any evidence to their superior delivery) would be
1. Weak centrifuged strains that are to fragile and isolated
2. Bifido strains which work in the lower GI being administered directly to the lower intestines for an explosive advantage. Again, you would need evidence that this was more efficacious but it does seem plausible anyway - Re: Probiotics survive stomach acid.... stevensrd1
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This is a reply to # 2,111,672I tend to think they are partially right in relation to the purpose of stomach acid. Seems to me, as an opinion of course, that the purpose of stomach acid is only to greatly reduce the numbers of bacteria in foods, but not totally kill them off. This way the gut flora already in the intestines gets a chance to see if the new bacteria that arrives can be useful, and if so it lets it live and they swap dna and so forth. Otherwise if its not useful, and given the stomach acid has already reduced the numbers of new bacteria coming in then the intestinal flora simply destroys it.
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