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Originally Posted by whitecrow
Both these statements are incorrect.
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disorder that is painful and causes malnutrition, weight loss and worse complications. L. acidophilus and L. bifidus in a nondairy formula are specifically recommended to help reduce inflammation and reduce seepage of undigested food particles.
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic condition whose manifestations are similar to Crohn's. Both involve extreme inflammation, ulcers and bleeding in the large intestine. Acidophilus and bifidus in a nondairy formula are specifically recommended once again to normalize intestinal flora, especially if the patient has been on antibiotics.
It is true that many commercial companies have jumped on the nutritional bandwagon and offer products of dubious value.
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Sorry. My statements are correct.
In 2001, I worked along with a study about probiotics sponsored by Nestlé. A lot of universities in europe were involved. The study was about the post-operative influence of probiotic products for people with IBD after resection of a part of the bowel. Similar studies have been done in those years. The first results of the studies were positive.
Then, indeed you saw "commercial companies jump on the nutritional bandwagon"... All of them have produced texts as you have here above, telling us it's very good, it's very healthy.
But universities have continued their studies, even did some meta-studies, and after a while the enthousiasm about probiotics started to diminish. There had also been "accidents" with some other probiotics, not designed for a better bowel function. I have forgotton what they were for. But people died. This, and the follow-up studies, opened the eyes of many professionals.
Since I have Crohn's disease myself,
a half year ago, my specialist urged me to stop using probiotics.
So, yes, on the net you'll find lots of positive texts on probiotics. Those commercial companies won't haste themselves to remove those texts. It's even beyond their means. Those texts have gone viral.
But the most recent studies show it really was a hype, nothing more. Even a bad one for IBD patients.
It's always a good idea to check your sources.
Books, internet pages, ... can be sponsored by commercial companies.
None of them will ever admit their product is bad, or not necessary.
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If a person has a varied, mostly raw vegetarian diet that includes cheese and yogurt, miso and other fermented foods, then he may not need to take probiotics at all
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mostly raw diet" is also not so ideal for people with bowel disfunctions. Don't forget, for more than 30.000 years, people are cooking their meals.
Another thing interesting. Long time people have tought the appendix had no function. So often it was removed, just like that, even if it wasn't inflamed. Recently they found out, the appendix holds a kind of bacteria bank, of all kinds you need personally. Each time your bowels get out of balance, it get's washed out with diarrea, so to speak. And then the bacteria cultures are rebuild very fast (one day) using this bacteria bank. When your appendix has been removed rebuilding the cultures takes much more time, even sometimes failes. Probiotics can help in those cases (still not for IBD patients though)
whitecrow : what I write here, is not meant as an attack on you or what you write. It's more like a marginal note. People should beware, and especially those with IBD.