Guest guest Posted August 6, 2003 Report Share Posted August 6, 2003 In a message dated 8/6/03 5:01:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, califpacific writes: > Homemade Kefir is very easy to make. It is basically just adding a > kefir grain to milk and letting it do all of the work to make kefir. > No cooking needed. > > Kefir bought in stores is NOT real kefir. (including health food > stores). It is made differently for the commercial market. > > Kefir has hundreds of beneficial bacterias, yeasts, etc, not just one > or two as in a probiotic capsule. When you take medicine, you alter > the ecology of the intestal flora and kill much of it. You cannot > replace that by a pill. Kefir is the only thing that I know that omes > close. Drinking a glass of kefir or two a day will put back a quatity > of flora that would require a hundred pills ot more. And the > diversity of the flora would be imposswible to duplicate in a tablet > or pill. > Homemade yoghurt, I feel, is next best.... and also easy to make. I make it twice a week.... it's a no brainer. And, you can get your starter culture in the supermarket, I like Stoneyfield brand PLAIN yoghurt for this purpose. And, Frank is right on re the serotonin receptors in the gut. Important, this one fact. Hope this helps mjj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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