Guest guest Posted September 19, 2001 Report Share Posted September 19, 2001 D'Adamo 4 Your Type Probiotics By Dr. Greg The term " Probiotic " means " in favor of life " . It was coined in 1910, by a Russian physician named Metchnikoff, who promoted a theory of longevity which associated prolonged life and improved health with decreased gastrointestinal toxicity. He suggested that aging is a process mediated by chronic exposure to putrefactive intoxication caused by imbalances in intestinal bacteria and that this process could be halted by the routine ingestion of lactic acid bacteria and their " fermented " ( " cultured " ) food products. Almost 90 years have passed since he introduced these radical ideas; however, in many respects his ideas have been proven to be true. Consumption of lactic acid bacteria, or food cultured or fermented with these friendly microorganisms does extend life in animal experiments and does dramatically reduce a wide range of intestinal metabolites, such as indoles, polyamines, cresols, nitrates/nitrites, and carcinogens which we now know are counterproductive to good health. What are the health benefits of consuming friendly bacteria? Friendly bacteria restore intestinal balance, which results in the prevention of adherence of unwanted microorganisms the production of a wide array of antibacterial and antifungal compounds improved resistance against bacteria like E.coli, Salmonella, and H. pylori. Friendly bacteria enhance immunity by promoting improved anti-viral immune system function increasing NK cell activity increasing S-IgA producing nitric oxide modulating cell mediated immune response activating the reticuloendothelial system promoting a more balanced production of cytokines promoting resistance against some autoimmune processes evoking anti-Tn antibodies decreasing IgE-mediated responses enhancing immune system response to administered vaccines mediating against radiation-induced depression in white blood cells In many respects, friendly bacteria can be thought of as having " adaptogenic " effects on your immune system. They appear to modulate the nonspecific immune response differently in healthy and hypersensitive subjects. This is seen as an immuno-stimulatory effect in healthy subjects, and as a down-regulation of immuno-inflammatory responses in hypersensitive subjects. Friendly Bacteria Promote Detoxification by inactivating and eliminating carcinogens decreasing mutagenic compounds decreasing activity of nitroreductase and azoreductase decreasing activity of B-Glucuronidase decreasing activity of B-Glucosidase decreasing activity of ornithine decarboxylase decreasing activity of tryptophanase decreasing activity of neuraminidase and mucinase decreasing levels of polyamines, cresols and indoles decreasing ammonia decreasing levels of nitrates and nitrites enhancing liver function and promoting elimination of bile acids enhancing cholesterol metabolism Friendly bacteria promote healthy digestion by normalizing stool volume and regularity producing digestive enzymes that help digest proteins, carbohydrates, and fibers decreasing intestinal permeability decreasing food sensitivities decreasing lactose intolerance decreasing intestinal inflammation Friendly bacteria enhance bioavailability of nutrients by alleviating symptoms of malabsorption increasing the absorption of zinc, calcium, iron, copper, manganese, and phosphorous increasing the production of vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, A, K, folic acid, biotin, and tocopherols Why Do We Include Cultured Fruits, Vegetables, and Spices in these Probiotics? The primary reason is that many different compounds with health benefits have been isolated in fermented foods. Evidence demonstrates that many of these health factors are formed from the interaction of beneficial bacteria with the food substrate; however, these health promoting factors are independent of the beneficial bacteria and are lost if the fermented food base is not used as a food. Cultured Fruits, Vegetables, Spices, and other food substances contain vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals which promote good health high levels of vitamin K, tocopherols and vitamin B12 powerful antioxidant activities anti-mutagenic properties excellent growth promoting substrates (e.g. act as prebiotics) for friendly bacteria Cultured foods also allow for ease of digestion and improved bioavailability of nutrients increased bioavailability of compounds like isoflavones and bioflavonoids improved amino acid and protein efficiency ratios improved stability and retention of vitamin C levels augmentation of some of the metabolic benefits of these foods improvement of alcohol metabolism promotion of improved cardiovascular health Why should Probiotics or fermented foods be taken consistently? Even using strains of friendly bacteria that have a great ability to survive digestion and colonize your digestive tract, there is a tendency for a gradual decline in the quantity of these bacteria over time. This decline is substantially worsened with stress, poor dietary choices, antibiotics and other drugs. In today's world, with all of it's modern pressures, the ability to maintain an optimal intestinal microbial balance is almost always taxed. It has also actually been estimated that we consume 1 million times LESS healthy bacteria in our diet today than are ancient ancestors consumed. Why do we combine so many strains of good bacteria? It is simple really, friendly bacteria work better when more of them are combined together. There are actually hundreds of strains of bacteria in your digestive system and the friendly bacteria actually operate as a team, promoting the beneficial effects of each other. The term " Synergism " best describes the interrelationship of friendly bacteria. They mutually support each other by producing bacteriocidins and organic acids that they are resistant to, but which decrease pathogenic bacteria. In fact, these bacteriocidins are up to 1000X more active when combined then when they are isolated. But even more importantly, health effects of one strain of friendly bacteria are often not duplicated by other strains. So a more complex mixture, combining more friendly strains of bacteria, translates into more profound long-term health benefits. What does blood type have to do with friendly bacteria? There are two things actually. First, your blood type antigens are actually prominent in your digestive tract and, in about 80% of individuals (secretors), are also prominent in the mucus that lines your digestive tract. Because of this, many of the bacteria in your digestive tract actually use your blood type as a preferred food supply. In fact, blood group specificity is common among intestinal bacteria with almost 1/2 of strains tested showing some blood type A, B, or O specificity. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the blood type influence on intestinal microflora, it has been estimated that someone with blood type B will have up to 50,000X more of some strains of friendly bacteria than either blood type A or O individuals. Some strains of beneficial bacteria actually can have lectin-like hemagglutinin activity directed against your blood type. Why are we so careful about our growth media and cultured food base? There are many reasons and criteria for our selection of each blood type's media and cultured food combinations. First, the media ultimately dictates how well the friendly bacteria will grow both outside your body when the product is produced, but also within your body after you have consumed these supplements. For instance larch arabinogalactan promotes growth of B. longum, while ginger promotes the growth of L. plantarum. Some foods are exceptional for people of one blood type, but are either not as beneficial for, or potentially harmful for members of other blood types. Unfortunately, even culturing does not eliminate all of the potentially detrimental lectins present in some foods. So, since these probiotics offer the unique advantage of the included media and live-cultured, freeze-dried foods, it is essential to provide only the most beneficial foods. Certain foods when cultured will have substantial impacts of health and physiology, which can be used to promote specific blood type health needs. For example, cultured fruits are extremely powerful antioxidants, while others have dramatic impacts on immune function, endocrine function, or cardiovascular health. Many of these food compounds will act as excellent substrates to further promote enhanced digestive system health by decreasing the activity of certain detrimental enzymes. As an example, cumin decreases the activity of enzymes like beta-glucuronidase and mucinase, while green tea promotes improved intestinal balance by decreasing the activity of ornithine decarboxylase. Blueberry also decreases the activity of ornithine decarboxylase, and elderberry promotes improved viral resistance and is a very powerful inhibitor of neuraminidase. Dr D's Questions & Answers on Probiotics.... Was just wondering under what circumstances should a person take probiotics ? I think everyone should take food cultured with probiotic bacteria on a consistent (if not daily basis). In my opinion, exposure to both probiotic bacteria and the alchemical changes these organisms render in food might be the single most important dietary intervention. Based on everything I know about supplements (and it is rather a lot), the only product I consuume without fail daily is a probiotic. So, rather than telling you under what circumstances individuals should consume probiotics; my perspective is actually the oppposite. There are NO circumstances (short of full blown AIDS) under which these types of products are not suitable and desirable. Have you seen any adverse reactions to Probiotics(0)? I experienced incredible bloating after one day (one pill in morning and one in evening) I definitely have a general yeast problem and leaky gut and would very much like to heal this. I am also nervous of the kelp in the O Probiotics formula - would the A Probiotics formula work okay for an O? Kelp always seems to make my skin break out quite badly - would rather like to avoid that! Maybe all this bloating is due to shifting of intestine bacteria? The reason you suggest for the intestinal bloating is quite possible (and more than a bit likely). Often this will normalize within a few days to a week. If it does not, then there is something in the product that is disagreeing with you. I have had almost uniformly positive feedback from my patients with the O probiotic. However, several kelp-sensitive individuals have had problems. This might be the case with you as well. I do not think Dr. D'Adamo is an advocate of taking the A probiotic if you are an O. In the past, he has recommended against this. I just purchased " Probiotic " for my husband, type O, with Fibromyalgia and who has at times, severe stomach problems...nausea, constipation, etc. We have both just gone on the diet; should he be on Probiotic? Sorry, but I'm really not familiar with nonsecretors...have no idea if he is one or not! Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I would say that the probiotic is very important if you are a non-secretor. Deflect also becomes more important for non-secretors since they do not create much if any lectin binding substances in their saliva or mucus secretions. Non-secretors can be a bit more prone to ulcers or problems with mucusal barrier, so DGL and Bladderwrack can in some circumstances be helpful additions. At some point Dr. D'Adamo will create a product for non-secretors for additional support. It is already on the drawing board so to speak, but probably many months away from availability. In order to take probiotics effectively, how far away from meals is necessary for the supplement to be beneficial? I tend to snack often, and I also take other supplements that are supposed to be on an empty stomach so it is difficult to manage taking each of these on an empty stomach. Also, would it be all right to take other supplements with the probiotic (e.g., tyrosine and quercitin, some vitamins) as long as no food is taken in order for each supplement to maintain its efficacy? To be perfectly honest with you, taking the probiotics completely away from food or other supplements is probably not needed. In fact, often times friendly bacteria survive stomach acid and bile better when they are taken with a bit of food (hence part of the rationale of providing these products as live cultured foods). The folks at New Chapter consider it ideal to take the products a bit away from food (the idea being that you will stimulate less stomach acid then) and this might be the case. But the reality is that friendly bacteria have always been consumed as food with meals in traditional diets and they benefit peoples health in this manner. We advise our patients to take the probiotics whenever it is convenient. The last thing anyone needs is to add stress into their life by haviing to take things at all different times. Especially when there is no convincing scientific evidence to suggest that any substantial advantage exists by taking these products in isolation away from all other foods. Do you advise beginning taking the probiotics slowly? I don't know what the recommended dosage is. By the way, it would be helpful to have a page or addendum where one could read the ingredients of the supplements, and also the recommended dosages. You do not need to begin any more slowly than the recommended dose (1 twice daily), but can start with just 1 daily for 5-7 days if preferred. Very rarely a person will experience some transient digestive discomfort, gas, etc. when starting these products. This is a result of the turn over of GI bacteria and is not a cause for alarm. It will pass. The majority of persons who I have given these products to (and it is quite a few now in my practice) have had no unpleasant temporary side-effects. I've read that probiotics that are kept refrigerated (such as the Natren brand) are more effective than probiotics that are not refrigerated. The live cultures lose potency faster when not refrigerated. Was this considered when the ER4YT probiotics were created? I'll be honest and say that between the two brands (I have used both), I can tell a difference and see more effective results (in regards to yeast and urinary tract health) with the Natren. I trust the ER4YT diet and will continue to consider the supplements, so I would appreciate your response. For most probiotic supplements, the answer to your question is yes, they should be refrigerated. However, the D'Adamo Probiotic (and something called L. sporogenes) are exceptions. Most probiotics are centrifuged off of their growth medium. Because of this they are are considered to be in a condition that can best be described as " highly stressed " . In effect this means that they are much less stable than they would be if they were still complexed with their growth media. I think of this in simple terms...how comfortable would I be if someone took me away from my home and removed all of my clothes and left me standing somewhere. Not very stable or comfortable would be my answer. Because of this, these type of probiotics absolutely have to be refrigerated or they would degrade incredibly fast and be absolutely useless. Cultured food products on the other hand are a completely separate entity. Unlike the majority of probiotics found on the market, bacteria in cultured foods are very stable and are not considered to be under " high stress " . Because of this the need for refrigeration goes way down. However, the need to keep them moisture free is paramount. With respect specifically to the D'Adamo probiotic: these products start with a certain count of active bacteria. This amount slowly declines with time (whether or not they are refrigerated), but the amount listed on the bottle is the amount that will be found at the expiration date on the bottle. If the product is refrigertaed before opening, the decline will be slightly (but not substantially less). After opening the bottle, temperature is not as big a concern as moisture. Because of this, after the bottle is open, they should be left unrefrigerated. This is because every time you remove something from the refrigertaor, open it, reclose it, and re-refrigerate it; you create a situation where condensation (moisture) is very likely to be generated within the bottle. This is much worse for this product then temperature. So if you wish to refrigerate before opening that is fine, but after opening is not such a good idea. By the way, this same thing happens to all supplements if they are put in and out of refrigerators and is not good for most (IF ANY) of them. The other really important factor is that this product is cultured food and the other probiotic products are not. Why is this important? Cultured foods actually have a range of health benefits (and these are quite substantial) that simply giving the probiotic bacteria will not duplicate. In effect, the interaction of probiotic bacteria with food transforms food into a much more powerful health agent. So in my opinion (and I have looked at virtually every piece of research on probiotic bacteria and cultured foods), from a long-term health perspective, there is never any comparison between isolated bacteria and bacteria-rich cultured foods. Cultured foods provide so much more. This was the philosophy that drove the creation of these products, because cultured foods are relatively scarce in diets and as an option in health food stores. Dr D's specific blood type Probiotic O Ingredients.....Including blood type specific: *lacto 5 culture featuring NO specialist L plantarum supported by bifidobacteria, 1 billion/cfu *mucocoat media to help preserve culture and support digestive health *culture catalysts providing amino arginine and 5 x ginger promoting factors (GPF) Cultured in a base of okra (360 mg), spinach (218 mg), blueberry (75 mg), cumin ( 4 mg), ginger (4 mg), kelp (75 mg), arabinogalactan (15 mg), nutritional yeast and soy. Bacteria - 2 billion live cells L caseii L plantarum L salivarius L acidophilus L rhamnosus S thermophilus B bifidum B infantis B longum B breve blessings, kathy s **email me privately for more info on ordering Dr D's (NAP) products kksmith@... > > Someone told me that a great number of acidophilus > > bacteria are killed by > > the digestive acid in the stomach before it reaches > > the intestines. Is that > > true and if yes, then I suppose O's are all the > > worse off. Any comments? > > > > Also regarding wheat and corn syrup , how bad are > > they for O given that they > > in their raw state are avoids? > > > > Many thanks> Lise > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2001 Report Share Posted September 20, 2001 In a message dated 9/19/01 9:23:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, kksmith@... writes: > Cultured in a base of okra (360 mg), spinach (218 mg), blueberry (75 mg), > cumin ( 4 mg), ginger (4 mg), kelp (75 mg), > arabinogalactan (15 mg), > nutritional yeast and soy. Ummmmm....yeast? Hellooooo??? Why would you put yeast in a product that fights candida??? ~Eireen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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