Re: a little confused

[Guest guest]

> what I am confused

> about, does the final end product of homemade yogurt have enough

of

> the cultures (probiotics) or do we need to supplement probiotics

such

> as CP or Nature's Life? Am I confusing cultures with probiotics,

Hi Tina,

In BTVC Elaine does recommend yogurt and the probiotic. The yogurt

contains many good bugs, possibly enough to keep things balanced,

but some people prefer to use legal probiotics AND yogurt. Others do

only one or the other.

Many of our families are doing dairy-free SCD, so they use the legal

CP probiotic to get more good bacteria in the gut. Some people here

are doing both (although I haven't really heard of any that are

doing it by adding the probiotic directly to the yogurt??).

I think it may be a personal choice.

son - 5yo on 5/5, ASD, SCD one year

[Guest guest]

Hi Tina,

> does the final end product of homemade yogurt have enough of

> the cultures (probiotics) or do we need to supplement probiotics

such

> as CP or Nature's Life?

Homemade yogurt has *plenty* of lively bacterial cultures. According

to a count done by Seth and confirmed by two others a tablespoon of

SCD yogurt contains approximately 3 billion colony forming units

(CFU's)/ml of yogurt. So if you have a tablespoon of yogurt multiply

by about 15. That's lots of bacteria

In a probiotic, capsule/powder form (that is not yogurt) Elaine

reccomends only a maximum of 3 billion cfu's/day.

http://www.pecanbread.com/probiotics.html

Am I confusing cultures with probiotics, I

> thought they were the same thing?

The cultures are the bacteria that are in both probiotics (capsules,

powders) and in yogurt.

Hope that helps clear it up.

Sheila UC, 20 years -- in remission after 38 mos SCD

mom of SCD 23 mos