Re: Re: Is KT sufficient for bowel health?

June 30, 2011

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Lyn,

>Moving right along since you don't have those problems. Don't rinse milk kefir

>grains. Is your mkg making thick and creamy kefir?

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I can only culter an ounce at a time and my grains are barely growing at all. I

think maybe my problems were caused by A) my cold house in the winter months and

my rinsing my strainer in tap water. This week I have a different kind of

water, so I will pursue my kefir journey by rinsing with that. But I am out of

milk, so I have to wait. But I am hoping that I will start seeing my grains

grow. I want to start getting an abundance so I can start eating the grains.

>If not, try letting it go longer. I let mine go 36 hrs. accidentally and that

>is when I started getting the thick and creamy kefir. Now, it just takes the

24

>hrs. and my grains grow so fast I have to remove some everyday when making a

new

>batch (I make it by the glassful). Also, do you put it in the fridge until the

>next morning and then drink it?

Is that after you pour it off? Like a secondary ferment with kombucha?

>Oh, don't rinse your KT culture, either.

I don't rinse the cultures.

June 30, 2011

Thank you for this. This is helpful.

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To: original_kombucha

Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 11:22:20 AM

Subject: Re: Is KT sufficient for bowel health?

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Lyn,

Only probiotics in capsules or yogurt are temporary. The kefir probiotics are

not.

I found the video that explains this:

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2010/04/video-thursday-how-to-make-kefir/

jan

June 30, 2011

One question on the below video: do many people put a cap on the bottle when

they make kefir as she does in the video? I have always put a piece of cloth

so air can get in, and the cloth is held down by a rubber band.

Joyce

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July 1, 2011

Hi

Let me try to qualify this. satement :

" Only probiotics in capsules or yogurt are temporary. The kefir probiotics are

not. "

Not entirely correct. Kefir Probiotics in capsules vary in strength and

quantity. Some contains very active culture (depending very much on how they

were stored and handled) and some contains culture that are dormant. What one

must understand is that the bowel ecology when imbalanced is helped by bringing

in new probiotics and strengthening those that are at least still there.

When you ingest probiotics in any form. Most of the micro-organism don't make it

to the bowel. Most(not all) are destroyed/digested by the stomach acids and

enzymes in the digestive tract. Taking probiotics in a regular fashion helps to

increase the numbers of micro-organisms or their spores that would make it to

the bowel. That is how regular, I insist on this regular intake of probiotics

foods and/or supplements help maintain a balanced bowel ecology.

Home prepared kefir and other fermented food is in general more active than most

probiotics in capsules or other forms. Fermented food like Kombucha, Kefir

(Water or Milk based), Kimchi (a form of sauerkraut), Yogurt, etc brings a good

number of probiotics in the bowel, if taken regularly.

Once they get in it is extremely important to encourage these micro-organims by

bringing them some of their preferred food. especially a form of food not

favored by some of their less desirable cousins, candida albicans comes to mind

....(it is always in the gut but can be kept in check by a good population of the

others). One of the food that seems to help the good guys strive is inulin. a

compound found in many roots... One could eat a lot of the chicory root to

achieve this but there is a paradox eating too much carbohydrates brings sugar

to the gut and this tends to encourage candida albicans growth over that of mroe

desirable micro-organisms in the gut... There is a very nice option: inulin

supplementation. A product readily available in most pharmacy as Metamucil Clear

often you will find next to it a brand-store equivalent which by the way works

the exact same. about 2 tbsp per day of inulin helps restore bowel ecology aided

by regular, REGULAR,

intake of probiotics-rich, fermented foods... If these are not available then

capsules of proven potency can help ..I tend to think that those that come

refrigerated are more potent that those in dry form ..I could be wrong...

The side effects of taking inulin powder is some flatulence because of the

regained activity of the micro-organisms in the gut .. It subside after a few