Irritable Bowel Syndrome Treatment

Question by shoptheflower: Probiotic bills and capsules packs say that they have a certain amount of live bacteria at the time of?
manufacturing. How or do they stay alive while on the shelf? They never state shelf life. Am I just taking a bunch of dead probiotics that do absolutely nothing?
Also, if I mix a serving of a live probiotic product, from dannon,
with yogart, will more of them grow in the yougart? Yogart is a lot cheaper than the product, so I wondered if I could just buy it once and keep the organizims growin by adding some to new yogart every week.

Best answer:

Answer by fretochose
buy only probiotics from the refrigerated section of the health food store.

if you take the probiotics as directed..the whole bottle…once every 6 months or after a course of antibiotics you will be ok..no need to try to grow in the dannon

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Doing a bit of research and cant find any direct answers. would be good if you could name all micro-organisms used in yoghurt/dairy if possible

thank you!

If I go on a low carb diet, will it lower the amount of good bacteria in my gut?
Also, if I take probiotics, will they be able to be sustained in my gut on a low carb diet or will the probiotics be ineffective in providing benefits if I am on a low carb diet?
Thanks.

thats awesome