Re: Soil-based probiotics

There's two reasons I recommend Prescript-Assist. The first is that I reacted very powerfully to taking it, so powerfully that I'm having to wait till after the holidays to start taking it daily because it knocks me out a bit.

The other reason is purely science-based. If you survey the probiotics on the market, ALL of them except prescript assist are limited to Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains. But if you look at any good study of the human GI tract, it's made up of hundreds of strains of bacteria, with the most numerous being Bacteroides. Bacteroides alone is estimate to comprise 20% of all the bacteria in the human gut. Prescript-assist is the only bacteria I know that contains Bacteroides.

Every strain of probiotic bacteria has a niche in the GI tract. If you take lactobacillus over and over again, it's going to colonize one portion of your gut and not move from there. Same with bifidobacterium. But then you're guaranteed to be leaving a minimum of 20% of your gut uncolonized because you're not taking Bacteroides. It just defies logic why you would ignore the most numerous strain in the human gut.

If you look at the Science I'm confident you'll come to the same conclusion. Lactobacillus and bifidobacterium have been heavily marketed, but they don't really accomplish full gut recolonization.

Just my two cents.

tpno2005