Just one more question: do you need to continuously take them to have good effect or after some time (months or bottle) you are fine also without them?
I haven't really tried not taking them at all for prolonged periods of time. But I did start off with just one a day, went to two a day, then three a day. That was to slowly ease into it, while the existing bacteria in my gut would 'fight it out' with the new guys and slowly introducing more and more of the ones I wanted to be in there to crowd out whatever was in there before.
Now I'm on one in the morning and one in the evening but I don't sweat it at all if I forget. I might be totally fine with just one.
Some of the strains definitely just stay for a little while. Saccharomyces Boulardii for example IIRC usually isn't capable of hanging around forever if it's not replenished from the outside. You can get a lot of these from eating things like Sauerkraut. AFAIK Bacillus Subtilis is a bacterium that people in previous times would have naturally gotten from eating stuff from their garden, i.e. it's a "soil bacterium", so if you ate cabbage from the garden and you couldn't get _all_ the dirt and included bacteria off it, you might have gotten some Bacillus Subtilis with it.
I do have a garden but don't eat enough stuff straight from it I suppose :)
Now I'm on one in the morning and one in the evening but I don't sweat it at all if I forget. I might be totally fine with just one.
Some of the strains definitely just stay for a little while. Saccharomyces Boulardii for example IIRC usually isn't capable of hanging around forever if it's not replenished from the outside. You can get a lot of these from eating things like Sauerkraut. AFAIK Bacillus Subtilis is a bacterium that people in previous times would have naturally gotten from eating stuff from their garden, i.e. it's a "soil bacterium", so if you ate cabbage from the garden and you couldn't get _all_ the dirt and included bacteria off it, you might have gotten some Bacillus Subtilis with it.
I do have a garden but don't eat enough stuff straight from it I suppose :)