Duncan Crow
Wholistic Consultant
Probiotic disinformation practices increase profits
Probiotics manufacturer xyz says that FOS may cause digestive upset. Why don't they mention you can use longer-chain Inulin instead to feed the correct bowel bacteria while starving out the incorrect ones, and thus avoid long-term reliance on their product?
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Probiotics, supplementary bowel bacteria, are increasingly popular, and probiotic manufacturers are reaping big financial rewards. Some probiotics, albeit at very high doses, are very effective for re-colonizing the correct bowel flora that has been decimated by long-term antibiotic use, sugar, starch, drugs, or alcohol. But, the unsaid speaks volumes in this industry.
One manufacturer writes We believe the substrate is as important as the probiotics themselves. Many probiotics have included fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) in their product. FOS is an indigestible sugar that may cause digestive disturbances in certain individuals.
While technically true, if the probiotic manufacturer really believed the substrate is as important as the probiotics, why did they refer to a less effective waste fraction of inulin to comment on? Because the research shows that the incorrect bacteria can not utilize the longer-chain polysccharides and the good bacteria bifidobacteria and lactobacilli fluorish on them.
The manufacturer knows that probiotics, even great probiotics, work only as long as you're taking them unless you feed the culture, and if you feed it you don't really need the probiotic at all.
Inulin increases immune response, stabilizes blood sugar and insulin levels, facilitates mineral absorption, improves regularity and fecal bulking, reduces ammonia load, VLDL and LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, and the good bacteria suppress colon cancer and manufacture vitamins.
The ideal amount of FOS and especially Inulin in the adult diet is about 12 grams daily. Most people fall enough short of that target that this deficiency begins the bowel culture problem in many people. So, let's get the correct amount of Inulin in our diet and avoid most of the offending sugars and starches. Let's eat sour cabbage and other fermented products such as kefir, cheese and yogurt, all of which have the various correct probiotic cultures in them. In other words, let's get all the probiotics and prebiotics we need by falling back to a slightly more old-fashioned diet.
If we do want a good probiotic, by adding Inulin to the equation, treatment with the probiotic can be short-term rather than extended. You'll find Dahlia or Chicory Inulin at most health food stores. Natural sources are many: dandelion root and greens, onion, garlic, jerusalem artichoke, and generally, vegetables contain it. Inulin is the most common natural carbohydrate in the vegetable kingdom after starch.
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