Probiotics in the News: What’s in the Soil and What’s in a Supplement!
This isn’t new News, but every now and then, the subject of ‘probiotics’ appears in the media and there always seems to be a dozen commercials airing about different yogurts each week.
Probiotics is defined this way in Wikipedia:
Probiotics Wikipedia Definition and Explanation
We watch as companies like Culturelle and Dannon and Activia all vie for dominance in the marketplace, but often fail to deliver a truly great product. The point is not so much about taste, texture, or country of origin as it is about the efficacy in the human digestive system.
You can choose Greek yogurt or French yogurt or yogurt made in any culture in the world, but unless the ‘culture’ is active and viable; it won’t be worth one little bite. The commercial yogurts don’t always deliver what they promise. But people have the general idea that eating yogurt is a part of a healthy Lifestyle. While we feel that this is true for the most part, it only works for the human body under very specific circumstances.
It’s not just about acidophilus… It’ not just about bifidus… It’s not even fair to compare unless you have more cultures of more microorganisms in the mix. If you expect to get all of the live cultures in one type of yogurt or supplement, you might be fooling yourselves. You would be better off to eat a variety of yogurts, kefir, kim chi, tempeh, sauerkraut, fermented vegetables, and other fermented foods which contribute to the replacement of a variety of microorganisms in your digestive system.
If you eat foods that are grown in healthy soils which contain these microorganisms, it’s better than taking supplements. So many civilizations have used fermented foods to ‘do the trick’ instead of supplements for centuries that you can follow the lead by consuming the real foods and rely upon food from healthy soil to supply what you need to repopulate your intestinal flora.
That’s what we called them before people started to use the term, ‘probiotics’. With the advent of antibiotics which kill the probiotics, it became clear to health care practitioners that we were going to have to replace the critters to ensure the healthy environment in the intestines. We used to order frozen cultures to provide a viable quantity of live cultures to do the job. We used to make our own yogurt and sauerkraut at home in the ‘old days’.
Then along came supplements that were better, less expensive, and more adept at providing the critters that people needed after antibiotics or a poor diet of processed foods or the reluctance of mothers to breastfeed their newborn infants to pass on the immunity and the cultures to their children.
You can read the original article published about Nature’s Biotics here: Critters
The industry grew up around us.
Now…you see all of the major brands of food products rushing in to attempt to get a portion of the marketshare. They have cute Greek guys taking tubs of yogurt to beautiful women saying that’s it the best thing in the world. They act as if they were the first to travel to Greece or France to bring back a different quality of yogurt. They are portrayed on shows like Dr. Oz and TheDoctorsTV as preferable. They come in dozens of fruit and artificial flavors to try to cover up the tartness of ‘real’ yogurt. Why are ‘they’ trying to change what works!?!
Does Dr. Oz even know how to make his own yogurt? Is Dr. Travis even aware of kefir or tempeh? Why do you listen to them?
The best probiotic supplement that we have ever tested are the SBOs from Life Sciences that we have discussed on this blog in previous posts. SBOs stands for “Soil-Based-Organisms”. Nature’s Biotics was the most complete formulation of numerous cultures that we have evaluated and found to restore Balance to the digestive system, the immmune system, and the lymphatic system.
Life Sciences Probiotics Information
There are others, but you should use the best, if you decide to supplement your probiotics. However, the most ideal solution is to consume fermented foods. We would like you to know that VitalChoice carries five delicious choices that are worthy of your attention.
The pickled or cultured vegetables are fantastic. From sauerkraut to daikon, from carrots to beets, you won’t be disappointed when you get your probiotics from fermented foods. In macrobiotics, people eat a pickled vegetable with every meal. It matters for your health and wellness… So try some tempeh, drink some amasake, nibble on some kim chi, and feast on sauerkraut on a regular basis.
For your own health, go for the best from the soil as well as the best in supplementation…to be a good friend to your intestinal flora!
