Re:Probiotics As A Second Immune System

[Guest guest]

I don't know where you get that probiotics are creating antibodies. All

probiotics do is introduce good bacteria into the GI system that helps the

body's immune system in fighting infections and disease and to counteract

the adverse effects of antibiotics, which wipe out the good bacteria in your

GI and give you the antibiotic related colitis.

Probiotics do not hyperstimulate the immune system. They support it.

I have an auto-immune dz and I take probiotics daily and I never have a

problem. Plus, my rheumatologist and my natural medicine MD both agree that

taking them is an excellent idea.

 

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PParkegail

3/23/2009 8:31:08 AM

 

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Please can you tell me how this would affect autoimmune disease. To have a

'second immune system' (and probiotics which produce extra antibodies) would

 

presumably aggravate/over stimulate an already aggressive immune system, as

do

products like Spirulina, Echinacea and the like. The aim is to modulate and

balance the immune system, so where do Probiotics stand with that? I add

them to natural yoghurt, so I was particularly interested in your post!

Thank you

Peta

 

 

[Guest guest]

Yes, but it does not HYPERstimulate the immune system. That was the point of

the post. Probiotics benefit the immune system by supporting it- not causing

it to go into overdrive.

 

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sharonstrahan

03/27/09 20:38:55

 

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Just search on probiotics and autoimmune disease.

 

One study:

Matsuzaki T, Takagi A, Ikemura H, Matsuguchi T, Yokokura T. Intestinal

microflora: probiotics and autoimmunity. J Nutr. 2007 Mar;137 (3 Suppl

2):798S-802S.

 

Can be found here:

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/137/3/798S

 

or an abstract in PubMed:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17311978?ordinalpos=2 & itool=EntrezSystem2

PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

 

It talks about how probiotics show a modulatory effect on the immune system.