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<Alan > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:55:04 GMT, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
>> <-> wrote:
>>>On 17 Oct 2006 20:06:24 +0200, "cybercat" >
>>>wrote:
>>>><Alan > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:27:07 GMT, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
>>>>>>>This is why it's wise to take a probiotic when you are taking
>>>>>>>antibiotics. One excellent and inexpensive brand I use is PB-8. It's
>>>>>>>an
>>>>>>>8 organism balanced flora supplement. Yogurt is okay in a pinch but I
>>>>>>>believe a multi-organism supplement is better.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Live-culture yogurt has up to 5 different bugs in it and
>>>>>>will take over your current intestinal menagerie if you
>>>>>>eat it consistently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Blair
>>>>>
>>>>> Which is, of course, touted as a health benefit.
>>>>>
>>>>> I eat yogurt consistently, and it hasn't taken over my intestinal
>>>>> menagerie.
>>>>
>>>>How do you know?
>>>
>>>Well, for other reasons, I've been tested, and my intestinal flora
>>>were all OK. . . .
>>
>>"All OK" means you aren't carrying anything bad.
>>
>>Score one for yogurt.
>>
>> --Blair
> Right! I didn't say it yogurt was bad. I just said that it hadn't
> "taken over".. My take is that it 'augmented'.
>
> Alan

Lots of doctors still suggest eating yogurt if you're taking antibiotics and
they whack your digestive system. It works. If it's true that TOO MUCH
yogurt can have adverse effects, I would theorize that it would primarily
happen to people to aren't especially smart. I mean....what does it take to
realize that your diet is dominated by too much of a certain thing?