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by stevebot 4070 days ago
Any recommendations for probiotics? I've tried a couple with no luck myself.
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I think you are better concentrating on natural prebiotics, by eating lots of fruit and vegetables. Apples in particular are meant to have very good prebiotic properties.
Thanks, and I do love apples. Any good literature that you have read on the topic? I'm interested in changing to a more probiotic friendly diet.
There is this study:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140929181156.ht...

Although it is looking into obesity, they did find that apples restored abnormal microbiota.

I suffer from mild IBS myself, and find that eating an apple a day seems to help (although it's impossible to know for sure without doing a double-blind trial on myself).

I like General Biotics[1]. It has 115 strains which is an order of magnitude more than any other supplement. One of the founders is a researcher in the field published in all the big name journals. They don't make claims that can't be scientifically supported, unlike most health supplement companies. Highly recommended.

1: http://www.generalbiotics.com/

I had good experience with the Trader Joe's Milk Kefir.
Sauerkraut is a good option if you like actual food.
And if you've never made, and eaten, homemade sauerkraut, then let me tell you: you're missing out.
I love Sauerkraut on a good sausage. Do you actually eat it on it's own?
A beet/cabbage mixture sauerkraut is DELICIOUS to eat on it's own.
Pretty good as a side dish.
I've used this in the past:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SXBWDOY

Seems to work. My wife uses it regularly. Just a couple of data points for what it's worth.

I would first do some research on probiotics. From what I've seen, the only proven benefit came using them ina very certain situation which I forget completely (it was something like it helped clear up diarrhea after an antibiotic quicker or something like that). My point is they aren't cheap and you could simply be wasting money. I'm honestly not informed enough either way, but when I looked into them a few years ago, there was little to no proven benefits of using them.
Well, since TFA is specifically about post-antibiotics gut problems, the commenter is in a good place to be asking for information.