Re: Re: Primal Defense (was crohn''s disease - J. Rubin)

[Guest guest]

Part of the rebuttal/editorial quoted by Louise reads:

> " I can not vouch for many of the soil

>organism supplements that are on the market but Primal

>Defense DOES stand out above the rest. The soil organisms are

>produced by fermenting whole foods for up to 6 months or

>longer. So, the SBO's are actually CREATED during this

>fermentation period. "

I'm glad this was brought up. I had forgotten that PD's microbes

were grown on a food substrate consisting of juices, greens, seeds,

and veggies. The PD isn't just a concentrated bunch of probiotic

microbes. Probiotics have been found to have a much better rate

of survival in the digestive tract when consumed along with the

substrate on which they were grown.

I had taken PD for about 6 months, but then I ended up switching

to real milk kefir, kimchi, a water-based consortia, and other

fermented foods over time, not as a conscious decision though.

Real milk kefir alone has 2 or 3 times as many types of microbes

compared to PD.

Darrell

[Guest guest]

>

> By real milk kefir, do you mean raw milk kefir, or regular milk kefir

cultured with real

> grains?

>

> -Pratick

You hit the nail on the head, Pratick. By 'real milk kefir' I am

referring to milk kefir, raw or otherwise, made with real kefir grains,

not fake kefir from the commercialized starters cobbled together in a

factory somewhere.

Darrell