Duncan Crow's on Primal Defense probiotic

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Believe it or not, although I support Primal Defense purely because

it seems to produce short-term results, I don't believe it to be

the best product for the job of culturing the bowel bacteria.

 

The reason I don't believe it is is the solution to bowel problems

is that PD contains several soil based and a couple of

animal bowel bacteria. Although the soil based and the friendly

yeast quickly overpopulate and overwhelm bad bowel bacteria (and

probably good and neutral bacteria too, short-term) they are

essentially transient populations; they diasppear as the proper

bacteria starts to fluorish as it gets a chance to outcompete.

Using animal bacteria that are meant to be more permanent but are

not native to humans is not well-studied, and the Gastroenterology

Journal expresses concern about the wisdom of such a move.

 

Regardless of this wisdom or lack of it, the bottom line is that a

good portion of the PD mix is transient and not at all useful in

the long term. And people who use it long term find this when they

stop taking it and experience a relapse.

 

So what I recommend is more of a permanent fix. Use Primal Defense

temporarily if you feel it's right for you, and after a month or

two, switch to a cheaper but more useful, natural formula of human

probiotics such as one containing several bifidobacteria strains

and a few lactobacilli strains, and feed it inulin to establish a

natural bowel culture. That's it; there can be eubacteria or a

strain of staphylococcus in it, or special breeds of organisms you

can use depending on whether you're fighting candida, such as DDS-1

and etc... anyway I've read an awful lot of the literature now, and

getting to normal evolutionary organisms is most desireable in my

view.

 

Here's a short list of a few good potent brands; there are many

others I'm sure:

http://www.consumerlab.com/results/probiotics.asp

 

Don't forget the inulin. In using it we again validate the

approach, just as they did in medieval times, ancient Greece, and

ancient China. If interest justifies the bother with the product,

several companies will undoubtably start to offer the sugar- and

FOS-free type properly packaged and labelled (instead of in an

unlabelled ziploc bag hehe). Meanwhile, it's being put into foods

on an industrial level as a sugar and fat replacer and thickener.

 

Here's the science on inulin. This is the only location for this

exhausive work online:

http://members.shaw.ca/duncancrow/inulin_review.html

 

Duncan Crow