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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hi, how are you?
This is Damaris Maria Grossman,doctor of nurse practice, and
we're talking about gutprobiotics, um, first off.
Um, if you're reading the video, I'm going to show you
different ones.
I'm not sponsored by any ofthis.
I just want to tell you onesthat have used before and what
is like the by the research andhow much I recommend.
(00:26):
So when I want you to look forprobiotics for your body one, it
depends upon what is going on,and two I want you to do, look
for 10 probiotics, minimumstrains in your body and at
least five to 10 billion CFUs.
Now the ones that I takeactually are higher amounts.
(00:49):
I've taken one for criticalcare, around 8 billion CFUs, and
the other one is an immuneplatinum and that's been 90.
It's really what's in there.
And then for then for children,anywhere between five to 10,
and that one can range about sixto 10 strains.
And then there are some veryspecific um probiotics out there
(01:14):
, like um acromantia to helpcurbing weight loss, and that's
more um stowed in the um stowedin the colon, and I'll talk more
about that at another time.
But also, you know, probioticsare beneficial micro
(01:40):
micro-organisms and you'll heara lot about why they're used
because most of the time,individuals over time, or just
even from birth till you know,individuals over time, or just
even from birth till you know,people eat and grow and such
that their little gut health hasdecreased and has caused a
dysbiosis.
And dysbiosis means adysregulation of the good and
bad flora within the body.
So, and it's in those, eitherin the wrong place or it is not
(02:04):
being utilized correctly.
I just took actually one rightnow and, um, your digestive
health is a factor and you'llhear a lot about how your gut is
your second immune system andwhen we do not have the proper
amounts of microorganismsbalanced, your body is in a good
(02:50):
place.
So I'm going to go over some ofthe major microorganisms in the
gut, and there are hundreds ofthem.
So I mean I and it's kind of aninfancy in a sense, when it
comes to the research on how thebenefits, even though if you
(03:11):
read back um, hippocrates wouldsay you know what you put into
your body and you know you arewhat you eat is really your
medicine, and that is reallyfact.
The problem is is, over time,you know changes in our, in our
food systems, changes in ourstressors, changes in lifestyle,
things um, have factored outand how things are processed and
(03:32):
made.
And then our bodies have, youknow, evolved um and has changed
our microbiome throughout.
And you know there's good andbad to that right Um.
But when you hear someone saythey have like a dysbiosis that
has to do with an irregularityof balance of microbiomes, good
and bad.
And then if you hear that wordleaky gut or intestinal
(03:56):
permeability, is that thosejunctions within the GI tract
have, you know, they separateslightly.
But when they really separatethen all kind of like the
floodgates open and you've gotall the gunk kind of going
through.
So imagine, like a sewer, yourpipes are fine and but say
there's a small crack.
Small crack you might be ableto cover, but over time if you
(04:17):
have a degradedness of thosepipes, eventually they'll open
in the floodgates, literallyopen in all that junk or that
sewer could possibly go intoyour home or could back up into
your, into your bathroom, intoyour house, what have you?
So think of it like you don'thave the right walls, that's
(04:38):
your leaky yacht on, and if youdon't have the right um formula
or um products to like balanceout the system, your body will
then kind of feel good and ickyand eventually we'll we'll just
be blocked up.
(05:03):
So let's talk about, when I say10, um, probiotics in your
system, um, let's first talkabout different ones.
Okay, so first ones that mostpeople know about.
It's called lactobacillus.
There's a big thing where youknow there's different companies
that are like oh, this is thebest brand and I'm doing this
for you and you know, not all ofthem are made equal, but
understanding what they are forprobiotics is helpful and I'm
(05:29):
just giving you an overview andwhere the research comes in
recently.
So let's first talk aboutlactobacillus.
So lactobacillus is a lacticacid bacteria.
It's most common species areacidophilus and you'll see a
couple of them.
They'll be like they only haveone or two strains.
(05:49):
Like when someone says, oh,I've got a probiotic and it's
only got one or two strains, gotto tell you that's not going to
be enough, but hey, it'ssomething.
So what is acidophilus and whyare most people usually taking
that one?
It aids in lactose digestionand the gut flora and it
supports the immune system.
First, I'll tell you majorityof probiotics are supporting the
(06:10):
immune system.
Even if they sound like a badprobiotic, they're supporting
the immune system, dependingupon the location of where they
are and when those bad bacteriasupposedly go into the wrong
part of your GI system, thenthat's when it's a problem.
So, acidophilus why this one'sso common and why it's used so
(06:32):
much is because a lot of peoplehave a lactose intolerance and
it's good for digestion.
So then the next one it's calledis lactobacillus rhamnosus.
This helps with preventingdiarrhea and the gut lining a
little bit of weight loss.
And then there's another onecalled acromansia, but that
one's in the colon and we'lltalk further about that when I
talk about weight loss.
Um, that's another probioticused for that.
(06:56):
The next one is calledlactobacillus.
So these ones that I'm goingover right now are lactobacillus
and then they have a secondaryname, so lactobacillus rutaria.
So this one has to do withinflammation.
It promotes oral health andimproves skin integrity.
So this is kind of if younotice in your body your gums
(07:20):
are a little bleeding or justkind of gunky or you're starting
to get more plaque, yourmicrobiome is off in that sector
.
So you would use a little bitmore of that ruteri kind of
blend.
You would look for probioticblends for oral care.
So when you're looking forprobiotics you're looking for
(07:43):
where there is a discomfort,dysbiosis, an irregularity in
your system that probably needsto be changed.
Most of the time a goodmajority, not every company, but
there are some good qualitycompanies out there that are at
least giving you a decent rangeof probiotics that you can at
(08:05):
least kind of trust.
So then there's one calledlactosilice planetarum and this
one's for, like, irritable bowelsyndrome and more again on the
gut barrier and lactobacilluscasei, which improves digestion,
infection, inflammation.
I will also say my caveat withprobiotics, you know you could
(08:27):
benefit always by good fiberhydration.
You know the basic stuff withlifestyle medicine is hydration,
sleep, reducing your stress,you know, keeping a good amount
of fiber in your diet.
And these will all come inconjunction to helping with the
microbiome, in conjunction tohelping with the microbiome.
(08:53):
And then when I look at like abottle so this one bottle that I
have in my hand, it's criticalcare it says 80 billion CFUs.
And if I start looking down atthe different lactobacilluses,
this one does have plantarium,this one does have plantarium.
This one does have um theRamanus.
This one does have the umacidophilus.
It also has um infantis um, butthat's for bacillus.
(09:15):
It also has um the casea, andcasea is for the digestion Um,
and then it has a number ofother lactobacillus ones, so I'm
not going over every single onebecause there's so many, but
I'm just giving you a reallygood quick overview of that one.
So then in this cultured onethat I have here, it also has
(09:39):
biobacterium.
Now, sorry, my sayings or mypronunciations are not great,
I'm just going over that.
So biobacteria are beneficialfor the gut, founding in like
when you're from infant birth.
So when children are givenprobiotics, like I gave my son
(09:59):
probiotics because he had asevere eczema and also
sensitivity and also sensitivity.
So we were giving himprobiotics for children and an
omega-3 to help with his gutlining and over time it really
helped and we modified what wewere feeding him and eventually
(10:19):
the inflammation went down.
So this, the bifidobacterium,can usually be given to children
.
So I have a bottle of a kid'sversion and in here they do
lactobacillus, but they do havean array of bifidobacterium.
(10:45):
So the number ones that areusually pretty common are
bifidium, which is for immunity,health and digestion.
Are bifidium, which is forimmunity, health and digestion.
It's biphytobacterium longum,which reduces the gut
inflammation.
There is Breve, which is aidsin digestion and reduces
bloating and respiratory health.
There is one called Lactiswhich is for immune support and
(11:06):
IBS and diarrhea, and thenthere's one called infant test.
That's usually what is given tokids and infants for colic so
um, by fitter bacteria, infanttests.
That is usually given for theirgut health.
You see, when they're trying to, when they're um.
Now that the the main thing isis how much is given and and
(11:27):
there's still some research onwhere that's the right amount.
And especially it comes down toabout the little.
A little baby is going to havea smaller microbiome and
obviously an adult, so theamounts and the dosages are, you
know, has to be adjusted withyour healthcare provider or um
neonatal um specialists.
So that is dependent.
(11:51):
But I will say for an, a child,like an infant, you could
probably it's usually rangebetween 1 million to um 2.5
infant wise, and then usuallyit's around 5 million, uh, 5
billion CFUs for children underthe age of 10.
And then after the age of 10,they can go to an adult CFU,
(12:13):
around 15 to 30 CFUs, 30 billionCFUs.
This means like the collectiveCFU of the gut biome.
So when I say CFU I'm talkingabout the colony forming units
within, so the bacteria cause.
It's, you know, it's micro,micro, um, that's what I mean,
(12:36):
cfu, and what's the right dosageis really depending upon the
person, the you know what isgoing on but on.
But initially I would say forchildren it's like 2.5 to 5
billion.
For the average person it'saround 10 to 20 billion,
depending upon the need, andthen obviously, if there's
(12:58):
ailments or a major health issue, the higher can go up to about
50 to 80 billion.
So when I'm in critical, likeI'm in a post-surgery time, I
went up to about 50 to 80billion.
So when I'm in critical, likeI'm in a post surgery time, I
went up to 80 billion to work onmy immune system immensely.
That is not for the average.
Most of the time you can be ata 10 to 50 billion range.
(13:20):
I like it to be at least 10,preferably 20 billion CFUs and
that's again colony formingunits of the probiotic.
Okay, when you're initiallystarting probiotics, they will
make you poop or try to help you, try to get to unconstipated
and basically it's trying tobalance out what junk was in
there before and clean out allthe kind of the gunk there.
(13:43):
So you're going to go fromconstipated to a little runny to
then eventually balance.
Think of it like it's cleaningout the junk.
So to clean it out it's got toclean out the pipes and if your
pipes are dirty they got to beclean.
In conjunction with that alwaysis going to be hydration,
reducing your stress, movementfiber.
You know things of the basics,but we're just going over why
(14:08):
probiotics are beneficial.
Now, high doses of probiotics isover 50 billion and very rarely
do I tell people to take thoseunless there's like an illness
or there's other health issuesgoing on.
You can, um, you can go under40 and be fine Um.
So let's go over the nextprobiotic, which is um sacro.
(14:32):
I'm saying it wrong, don't mindme, but it's basically for
Candida.
Um, this one is called sacro,my CCS, so it is a yeast based
probiotic.
This one is to help withcandida, traveler's diarrhea and
(14:54):
a variety of kind of um mold incandida type ish issues and
it's usually kind of like andit's also very good for someone
with like a UTI you might take.
They might have um, those needsum women's blend.
There's a women's blend withthis in it, in addition to the
(15:16):
um bifidobacterium and the lacto.
The lacto the second one fromthat would be the main one that
everybody usually knows isSaccharomyces boulardia, so it's
a pretty big name that's usedfor candida and also to treat
severe diarrhea or trappeddiarrhea.
(15:36):
Now, these next ones I'm goingto go over.
You're going to think, oh myGod, these are bad for you.
But they're not necessarily bad.
They just have to be in theright part of the GI system.
So the GI goes from your mouthall the way down to your anus,
okay, and so you need goodmicrobe from that tube all the
way out.
So if we don't have goodmicrobiome through it all,
(16:00):
that's a problem, right?
So if you don't have the rightamount in your mouth all the way
down, eventually there's goingto be a degraded immune system.
So streptococcus, so it'sbeneficial in digestion also,
but it has to be in the rightarea and it has to be balanced,
and when it's not, you're goingto get lactose problems, you're
(16:21):
going to get skin issues, you'regoing to have large amounts of
inflammatory issues andinfections.
But if it's in the right area,it's okay.
Aderococcus, which is aprebiotic and it helps balance
your um, your gut flora.
You know this is one wherethere has been research where
they say if your kids played inthe dirt or you lived on a farm,
(16:46):
you would have the right amountof microbiome instead of just
being hand washed with handsanitizers all the time.
Your body actually has aquality amount of dirt to kind
of build up that immune system.
So this is actually the onethat you get from being outside
in the dirt and around animals,livestock and pets and stuff and
(17:07):
in a way, if you have a smallpercentage of this, a micro dose
and such, in your body, yourimmune system will build up.
It's when you have excess of itis when it's a problem.
The next one that you knowyou'll hear and people will be
like oh my God, e coli, soesoteric coli.
You know you'll immediately saythis is not the right thing for
your body.
No, it's not that it's not theright thing, it just has to be
(17:29):
in the right location.
It should be in your colon.
It should be nowhere else butin your colon, in mostly the
distal end of your colon.
When it starts creeping up intoyour small intestines or into
your gut or you or you ingest itin your mouth, the upper part
of your GI, then that's when youstart getting really sick.
Okay, um, when you know yourbabies and they, you know,
(17:51):
they've, you've put it in youreye, your pink eye you put.
You know, in places outside ofthe colon E coli should not live
.
You know it's not there butit's.
It can cause and be harmful whenit's not in the right place,
but when it's in the right placeit's good for the gut health if
that makes sense.
So some of these things it'sjust location and also the
(18:14):
amount.
If there's not the rightbalance, a dysbiotic amount,
that's a problem.
So good and bad, it's just amatter of location, amounts and
how your body is reacting to itand able to kind of process Um.
This is one called bacillus umwhich is spore forming Um.
(18:35):
This is used in like harshenvironments there Um it helps
with digestion, bacilluscoligulans, bacillus subtus and
bacillus callus.
One is for immune support,one's for gut health and one
helps with gut infectionassociated with antibiotic
diarrhea.
Now this is excellent fortaking after an infection um to
(19:02):
help bring back the immunesupport Um.
This will help.
Usually post, or usually whenyou do take probiotics, you're
going to take them about twohours post, like say, if you're
going to have an antibiotic andthen you're going to have that,
you would take it about an hourto two hours after um you take
an antibiotic because you wantthe antibiotic to clear out, but
(19:26):
then you want the you bring ina good probiotic to help bring
in the good stuff for the immunesupport.
But you don't want them tofight with each other because
the antibiotic in turn is tryingto get rid of the junk, so it
will get rid of some of the goodflora.
So in turn, you're bringingback a probiotic to bring in the
good flora again.
So that's where the umantibiotics become a little
(19:47):
hairy, where people get like oh,I don't want to take
antibiotics.
If it's needed, it's needed,but you have to.
You know it's just the rightbalance and you know um, so just
don't take them together andgive it at least an hour to two
hour span.
Another one that I'm going to betalking about is called
Clostridium Clostridium.
(20:12):
Okay, that is a beneficialstrain in reference to butyrate
gut lining and inflammation.
So these are just kind of smallamounts of main names of
probiotics that are used.
Research that's been outrecently in 2025, um, one that
kind of came out.
That's kind of awesome is ithighlights the role of
probiotics intestinal health.
(20:32):
This came out by Renze at alland he talks about it's a very
new study um the benefits of thegut health in probiotics and
how it has um improved immunesupport, which you know, we know
that the problem is is thatthere's.
(20:53):
You know, the research is stillbeing kind of in its infancy of
research.
It's been around starting sincethe seventies and eighties, but
the newer, real more of whatspecific probiotics can be used.
How can we use it?
That's kind of the newer stuff.
So I'm trying to figure out whatnutrients are needed.
(21:15):
Is it fermented foods?
So in this one it was talkingabout, like the fermented foods,
it's saying functionalproperties of fermented foods
and juices.
So I think that probiotics arenecessary you don't have to
necessarily take a pill, butfermented foods and are
beneficial to build up in yourintestinal health or in your
(21:37):
immunity.
Now, how do you get them?
You can get them from food, ofcourse, and you know building
that up each and every day isavailable.
Now some individuals need totake these pills.
Some individuals, the food isyour friend, you know.
Think about the rainbow.
They call it phytonutrienteating.
(21:57):
The more colors that you havein your diets, the better off
you are.
So I'm talking about thedifferent types of probiotics.
Some are in pill form butothers, if you can get it in
your foods, that would be alwaysmore beneficial.
(22:17):
So think soups, thinkantioxidants groups, think um
antioxidants, um phytonutrientand phytochemicals in the body
or help reduce the inflammationwithin the body.
How do we use that?
Why is it so beneficial?
It's the nutrition that willbring the gut biome back to its
diversity.
It will make it more diverse.
(22:38):
So you bring in morephytonutrients, you bring in
more fiber, you bring in morequality probiotics.
Now people take a supplementwhen we need to build up immune
system a little bit more.
Okay, um, things thatphytonutrients are.
I are such like um I'll go intoanother thing more on this and
(23:00):
phytonutrients alone.
I'll talk about that in anotherepisode.
But think like carrots, betacarotene, flavonoids,
gluconolates, phoenic acids,terpenes, like ginger, curamin
is the phytonacetes and all ofthat helps with the gut biome.
(23:21):
So that's why that's soimportant and if you have any
questions, reach out to me.
I'd be glad to help.
And today's episode was onprobiotics.
I know which.
I don't know which one is yourfavorite.
Um, I'm not supporting anyonein particular.
You know I I use a couple, butdefinitely um men's or women's
(23:41):
health couple, but definitelymen's or women's health One.
I recommend, you know, take onefor yourself depending upon
your age and, like I said, atleast 10 billion CFUs and make
sure it has at least 10 strainsso that you have variety of
probiotics If you are takingthem, not just one.
If it's just acidophilus, it'sprobably not really that
(24:03):
adequate.
When you're taking yogurt thathas probiotics in them, that's
excellent, that's totally fine.
It only may have one or two,and that's okay.
Your body will naturally getand use it to what it needs.
But this is when we're actuallymaybe supplementing, and
fermented foods are also helpful.
(24:24):
I'll talk more about thenatural ways between the
phytonutrients and other things.
Hope you have a good rest ofyour day and make sure you make
a mindful way each and every day.
Hi, how are you?
This is Damaris Maria Grossman,doctor of nurse practice, and
we're talking about gutprobiotics, um, first off.
Um, if you're reading the video, I'm going to show you
different ones.
I'm not sponsored by any ofthis.
I just want to tell you onesthat have used before and what
is like the by the research andhow much I recommend.
(00:26):
So when I want you to look forprobiotics for your body one, it
depends upon what is going on,and two I want you to do, look
for 10 probiotics, minimumstrains in your body and at
least five to 10 billion CFUs.
Now the ones that I takeactually are higher amounts.
(00:49):
I've taken one for criticalcare, around 8 billion CFUs, and
the other one is an immuneplatinum and that's been 90.
It's really what's in there.
And then for then for children,anywhere between five to 10,
and that one can range about sixto 10 strains.
And then there are some veryspecific um probiotics out there
(01:14):
, like um acromantia to helpcurbing weight loss, and that's
more um stowed in the um stowedin the colon, and I'll talk more
about that at another time.
But also, you know, probioticsare beneficial micro
(01:40):
micro-organisms and you'll heara lot about why they're used
because most of the time,individuals over time, or just
even from birth till you know,individuals over time, or just
even from birth till you know,people eat and grow and such
that their little gut health hasdecreased and has caused a
dysbiosis.
And dysbiosis means adysregulation of the good and
bad flora within the body.
So, and it's in those, eitherin the wrong place or it is not
(02:04):
being utilized correctly.
I just took actually one rightnow and, um, your digestive
health is a factor and you'llhear a lot about how your gut is
your second immune system andwhen we do not have the proper
amounts of microorganismsbalanced, your body is in a good
(02:50):
place.
So I'm going to go over some ofthe major microorganisms in the
gut, and there are hundreds ofthem.
So I mean I and it's kind of aninfancy in a sense, when it
comes to the research on how thebenefits, even though if you
(03:11):
read back um, hippocrates wouldsay you know what you put into
your body and you know you arewhat you eat is really your
medicine, and that is reallyfact.
The problem is is, over time,you know changes in our, in our
food systems, changes in ourstressors, changes in lifestyle,
things um, have factored outand how things are processed and
(03:32):
made.
And then our bodies have, youknow, evolved um and has changed
our microbiome throughout.
And you know there's good andbad to that right Um.
But when you hear someone saythey have like a dysbiosis that
has to do with an irregularityof balance of microbiomes, good
and bad.
And then if you hear that wordleaky gut or intestinal
(03:56):
permeability, is that thosejunctions within the GI tract
have, you know, they separateslightly.
But when they really separatethen all kind of like the
floodgates open and you've gotall the gunk kind of going
through.
So imagine, like a sewer, yourpipes are fine and but say
there's a small crack.
Small crack you might be ableto cover, but over time if you
(04:17):
have a degradedness of thosepipes, eventually they'll open
in the floodgates, literallyopen in all that junk or that
sewer could possibly go intoyour home or could back up into
your, into your bathroom, intoyour house, what have you?
So think of it like you don'thave the right walls, that's
(04:38):
your leaky yacht on, and if youdon't have the right um formula
or um products to like balanceout the system, your body will
then kind of feel good and ickyand eventually we'll we'll just
be blocked up.
(05:03):
So let's talk about, when I say10, um, probiotics in your
system, um, let's first talkabout different ones.
Okay, so first ones that mostpeople know about.
It's called lactobacillus.
There's a big thing where youknow there's different companies
that are like oh, this is thebest brand and I'm doing this
for you and you know, not all ofthem are made equal, but
understanding what they are forprobiotics is helpful and I'm
(05:29):
just giving you an overview andwhere the research comes in
recently.
So let's first talk aboutlactobacillus.
So lactobacillus is a lacticacid bacteria.
It's most common species areacidophilus and you'll see a
couple of them.
They'll be like they only haveone or two strains.
(05:49):
Like when someone says, oh,I've got a probiotic and it's
only got one or two strains, gotto tell you that's not going to
be enough, but hey, it'ssomething.
So what is acidophilus and whyare most people usually taking
that one?
It aids in lactose digestionand the gut flora and it
supports the immune system.
First, I'll tell you majorityof probiotics are supporting the
(06:10):
immune system.
Even if they sound like a badprobiotic, they're supporting
the immune system, dependingupon the location of where they
are and when those bad bacteriasupposedly go into the wrong
part of your GI system, thenthat's when it's a problem.
So, acidophilus why this one'sso common and why it's used so
(06:32):
much is because a lot of peoplehave a lactose intolerance and
it's good for digestion.
So then the next one it's calledis lactobacillus rhamnosus.
This helps with preventingdiarrhea and the gut lining a
little bit of weight loss.
And then there's another onecalled acromansia, but that
one's in the colon and we'lltalk further about that when I
talk about weight loss.
Um, that's another probioticused for that.
(06:56):
The next one is calledlactobacillus.
So these ones that I'm goingover right now are lactobacillus
and then they have a secondaryname, so lactobacillus rutaria.
So this one has to do withinflammation.
It promotes oral health andimproves skin integrity.
So this is kind of if younotice in your body your gums
(07:20):
are a little bleeding or justkind of gunky or you're starting
to get more plaque, yourmicrobiome is off in that sector
.
So you would use a little bitmore of that ruteri kind of
blend.
You would look for probioticblends for oral care.
So when you're looking forprobiotics you're looking for
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where there is a discomfort,dysbiosis, an irregularity in
your system that probably needsto be changed.
Most of the time a goodmajority, not every company, but
there are some good qualitycompanies out there that are at
least giving you a decent rangeof probiotics that you can at
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least kind of trust.
So then there's one calledlactosilice planetarum and this
one's for, like, irritable bowelsyndrome and more again on the
gut barrier and lactobacilluscasei, which improves digestion,
infection, inflammation.
I will also say my caveat withprobiotics, you know you could
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benefit always by good fiberhydration.
You know the basic stuff withlifestyle medicine is hydration,
sleep, reducing your stress,you know, keeping a good amount
of fiber in your diet.
And these will all come inconjunction to helping with the
microbiome, in conjunction tohelping with the microbiome.
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And then when I look at like abottle so this one bottle that I
have in my hand, it's criticalcare it says 80 billion CFUs.
And if I start looking down atthe different lactobacilluses,
this one does have plantarium,this one does have plantarium.
This one does have um theRamanus.
This one does have the umacidophilus.
It also has um infantis um, butthat's for bacillus.
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It also has um the casea, andcasea is for the digestion Um,
and then it has a number ofother lactobacillus ones, so I'm
not going over every single onebecause there's so many, but
I'm just giving you a reallygood quick overview of that one.
So then in this cultured onethat I have here, it also has
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biobacterium.
Now, sorry, my sayings or mypronunciations are not great,
I'm just going over that.
So biobacteria are beneficialfor the gut, founding in like
when you're from infant birth.
So when children are givenprobiotics, like I gave my son
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probiotics because he had asevere eczema and also
sensitivity and also sensitivity.
So we were giving himprobiotics for children and an
omega-3 to help with his gutlining and over time it really
helped and we modified what wewere feeding him and eventually
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the inflammation went down.
So this, the bifidobacterium,can usually be given to children
.
So I have a bottle of a kid'sversion and in here they do
lactobacillus, but they do havean array of bifidobacterium.
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So the number ones that areusually pretty common are
bifidium, which is for immunity,health and digestion.
Are bifidium, which is forimmunity, health and digestion.
It's biphytobacterium longum,which reduces the gut
inflammation.
There is Breve, which is aidsin digestion and reduces
bloating and respiratory health.
There is one called Lactiswhich is for immune support and
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IBS and diarrhea, and thenthere's one called infant test.
That's usually what is given tokids and infants for colic so
um, by fitter bacteria, infanttests.
That is usually given for theirgut health.
You see, when they're trying to, when they're um.
Now that the the main thing isis how much is given and and
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there's still some research onwhere that's the right amount.
And especially it comes down toabout the little.
A little baby is going to havea smaller microbiome and
obviously an adult, so theamounts and the dosages are, you
know, has to be adjusted withyour healthcare provider or um
neonatal um specialists.
So that is dependent.
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But I will say for an, a child,like an infant, you could
probably it's usually rangebetween 1 million to um 2.5
infant wise, and then usuallyit's around 5 million, uh, 5
billion CFUs for children underthe age of 10.
And then after the age of 10,they can go to an adult CFU,
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around 15 to 30 CFUs, 30 billionCFUs.
This means like the collectiveCFU of the gut biome.
So when I say CFU I'm talkingabout the colony forming units
within, so the bacteria cause.
It's, you know, it's micro,micro, um, that's what I mean,
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cfu, and what's the right dosageis really depending upon the
person, the you know what isgoing on but on.
But initially I would say forchildren it's like 2.5 to 5
billion.
For the average person it'saround 10 to 20 billion,
depending upon the need, andthen obviously, if there's
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ailments or a major health issue, the higher can go up to about
50 to 80 billion.
So when I'm in critical, likeI'm in a post-surgery time, I
went up to about 50 to 80billion.
So when I'm in critical, likeI'm in a post surgery time, I
went up to 80 billion to work onmy immune system immensely.
That is not for the average.
Most of the time you can be ata 10 to 50 billion range.
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I like it to be at least 10,preferably 20 billion CFUs and
that's again colony formingunits of the probiotic.
Okay, when you're initiallystarting probiotics, they will
make you poop or try to help you, try to get to unconstipated
and basically it's trying tobalance out what junk was in
there before and clean out allthe kind of the gunk there.
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So you're going to go fromconstipated to a little runny to
then eventually balance.
Think of it like it's cleaningout the junk.
So to clean it out it's got toclean out the pipes and if your
pipes are dirty they got to beclean.
In conjunction with that alwaysis going to be hydration,
reducing your stress, movementfiber.
You know things of the basics,but we're just going over why
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probiotics are beneficial.
Now, high doses of probiotics isover 50 billion and very rarely
do I tell people to take thoseunless there's like an illness
or there's other health issuesgoing on.
You can, um, you can go under40 and be fine Um.
So let's go over the nextprobiotic, which is um sacro.
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I'm saying it wrong, don't mindme, but it's basically for
Candida.
Um, this one is called sacro,my CCS, so it is a yeast based
probiotic.
This one is to help withcandida, traveler's diarrhea and
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a variety of kind of um mold incandida type ish issues and
it's usually kind of like andit's also very good for someone
with like a UTI you might take.
They might have um, those needsum women's blend.
There's a women's blend withthis in it, in addition to the
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um bifidobacterium and the lacto.
The lacto the second one fromthat would be the main one that
everybody usually knows isSaccharomyces boulardia, so it's
a pretty big name that's usedfor candida and also to treat
severe diarrhea or trappeddiarrhea.
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Now, these next ones I'm goingto go over.
You're going to think, oh myGod, these are bad for you.
But they're not necessarily bad.
They just have to be in theright part of the GI system.
So the GI goes from your mouthall the way down to your anus,
okay, and so you need goodmicrobe from that tube all the
way out.
So if we don't have goodmicrobiome through it all,
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that's a problem, right?
So if you don't have the rightamount in your mouth all the way
down, eventually there's goingto be a degraded immune system.
So streptococcus, so it'sbeneficial in digestion also,
but it has to be in the rightarea and it has to be balanced,
and when it's not, you're goingto get lactose problems, you're
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going to get skin issues, you'regoing to have large amounts of
inflammatory issues andinfections.
But if it's in the right area,it's okay.
Aderococcus, which is aprebiotic and it helps balance
your um, your gut flora.
You know this is one wherethere has been research where
they say if your kids played inthe dirt or you lived on a farm,
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you would have the right amountof microbiome instead of just
being hand washed with handsanitizers all the time.
Your body actually has aquality amount of dirt to kind
of build up that immune system.
So this is actually the onethat you get from being outside
in the dirt and around animals,livestock and pets and stuff and
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in a way, if you have a smallpercentage of this, a micro dose
and such, in your body, yourimmune system will build up.
It's when you have excess of itis when it's a problem.
The next one that you knowyou'll hear and people will be
like oh my God, e coli, soesoteric coli.
You know you'll immediately saythis is not the right thing for
your body.
No, it's not that it's not theright thing, it just has to be
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in the right location.
It should be in your colon.
It should be nowhere else butin your colon, in mostly the
distal end of your colon.
When it starts creeping up intoyour small intestines or into
your gut or you or you ingest itin your mouth, the upper part
of your GI, then that's when youstart getting really sick.
Okay, um, when you know yourbabies and they, you know,
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they've, you've put it in youreye, your pink eye you put.
You know, in places outside ofthe colon E coli should not live
.
You know it's not there butit's.
It can cause and be harmful whenit's not in the right place,
but when it's in the right placeit's good for the gut health if
that makes sense.
So some of these things it'sjust location and also the
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amount.
If there's not the rightbalance, a dysbiotic amount,
that's a problem.
So good and bad, it's just amatter of location, amounts and
how your body is reacting to itand able to kind of process Um.
This is one called bacillus umwhich is spore forming Um.
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This is used in like harshenvironments there Um it helps
with digestion, bacilluscoligulans, bacillus subtus and
bacillus callus.
One is for immune support,one's for gut health and one
helps with gut infectionassociated with antibiotic
diarrhea.
Now this is excellent fortaking after an infection um to
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help bring back the immunesupport Um.
This will help.
Usually post, or usually whenyou do take probiotics, you're
going to take them about twohours post, like say, if you're
going to have an antibiotic andthen you're going to have that,
you would take it about an hourto two hours after um you take
an antibiotic because you wantthe antibiotic to clear out, but
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then you want the you bring ina good probiotic to help bring
in the good stuff for the immunesupport.
But you don't want them tofight with each other because
the antibiotic in turn is tryingto get rid of the junk, so it
will get rid of some of the goodflora.
So in turn, you're bringingback a probiotic to bring in the
good flora again.
So that's where the umantibiotics become a little
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hairy, where people get like oh,I don't want to take
antibiotics.
If it's needed, it's needed,but you have to.
You know it's just the rightbalance and you know um, so just
don't take them together andgive it at least an hour to two
hour span.
Another one that I'm going to betalking about is called
Clostridium Clostridium.
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Okay, that is a beneficialstrain in reference to butyrate
gut lining and inflammation.
So these are just kind of smallamounts of main names of
probiotics that are used.
Research that's been outrecently in 2025, um, one that
kind of came out.
That's kind of awesome is ithighlights the role of
probiotics intestinal health.
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This came out by Renze at alland he talks about it's a very
new study um the benefits of thegut health in probiotics and
how it has um improved immunesupport, which you know, we know
that the problem is is thatthere's.
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You know, the research is stillbeing kind of in its infancy of
research.
It's been around starting sincethe seventies and eighties, but
the newer, real more of whatspecific probiotics can be used.
How can we use it?
That's kind of the newer stuff.
So I'm trying to figure out whatnutrients are needed.
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Is it fermented foods?
So in this one it was talkingabout, like the fermented foods,
it's saying functionalproperties of fermented foods
and juices.
So I think that probiotics arenecessary you don't have to
necessarily take a pill, butfermented foods and are
beneficial to build up in yourintestinal health or in your
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immunity.
Now, how do you get them?
You can get them from food, ofcourse, and you know building
that up each and every day isavailable.
Now some individuals need totake these pills.
Some individuals, the food isyour friend, you know.
Think about the rainbow.
They call it phytonutrienteating.
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The more colors that you havein your diets, the better off
you are.
So I'm talking about thedifferent types of probiotics.
Some are in pill form butothers, if you can get it in
your foods, that would be alwaysmore beneficial.
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So think soups, thinkantioxidants groups, think um
antioxidants, um phytonutrientand phytochemicals in the body
or help reduce the inflammationwithin the body.
How do we use that?
Why is it so beneficial?
It's the nutrition that willbring the gut biome back to its
diversity.
It will make it more diverse.
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So you bring in morephytonutrients, you bring in
more fiber, you bring in morequality probiotics.
Now people take a supplementwhen we need to build up immune
system a little bit more.
Okay, um, things thatphytonutrients are.
I are such like um I'll go intoanother thing more on this and
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phytonutrients alone.
I'll talk about that in anotherepisode.
But think like carrots, betacarotene, flavonoids,
gluconolates, phoenic acids,terpenes, like ginger, curamin
is the phytonacetes and all ofthat helps with the gut biome.
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So that's why that's soimportant and if you have any
questions, reach out to me.
I'd be glad to help.
And today's episode was onprobiotics.
I know which.
I don't know which one is yourfavorite.
Um, I'm not supporting anyonein particular.
You know I I use a couple, butdefinitely um men's or women's
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health couple, but definitelymen's or women's health One.
I recommend, you know, take onefor yourself depending upon
your age and, like I said, atleast 10 billion CFUs and make
sure it has at least 10 strainsso that you have variety of
probiotics If you are takingthem, not just one.
If it's just acidophilus, it'sprobably not really that
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adequate.
When you're taking yogurt thathas probiotics in them, that's
excellent, that's totally fine.
It only may have one or two,and that's okay.
Your body will naturally getand use it to what it needs.
But this is when we're actuallymaybe supplementing, and
fermented foods are also helpful.
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I'll talk more about thenatural ways between the
phytonutrients and other things.
Hope you have a good rest ofyour day and make sure you make
a mindful way each and every day.
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