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Probiotics

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ryn9103
ryn9103

What probiotic brands do you trust? Do you ever change strains?

I've been using Culturelle as recommended by my GI, but I notice that it only has 1 strand of lactobacillus GG so I added Rainbow Light ProbioActive which has Bacillus coaguluns- I believe that strand helps with diarrhea which my IBS has switched to lately. I've also been thinking of switching to Garden of Life Once Daily Women’s Probiotics- which apparently has 16 strands and 50 billion cfu- when I run out of both the Culturelle and Rainbow Light.

Although, I am also curious if anyone takes Heather's Tummy Fiber which is prebiotic acacia, and/or Garden of Life chocolate plant protein which has 2 billion cfu of bifidoacterium lactis Bl-04. I am a little concerned that I might take too many probiotics if I take both the Garden of Life protein and probiotic supplements.

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  • jake1610
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    I'm no pro in relation to probiotics, but I regularly take Biokult (the standard one). To be honest, I'm never certain if it actually helps, but it's not doing any harm either. It's also reasonably priced and doesn't need to be kept in the fridge whilst having a naturally long shelf life. As far as i'm aware, it has lots of different strands of beneficial bacteria too. Hope this helps.

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