Recent new problems with yogurt

May 22, 2009

I've been getting a few perplexing results lately. I've had pretty good success

on SCD. I've tried experimenting going off of it, but the bad times return and

I go back to SCD and things get better again. For the longest time I made the

yogurt with the Yogourmet device and for a couple of years there was no problem

with the yogurt at all. I always used the starter from Yogourmet without

bifidus, it only has bulgaricus, thermophilus and acidophilus). Seemed to work.

However, after reading that the 24-hour incubation time leads to overheating and

possibly killing off the beneficial bacteria I decided to experiment with the

dimmer switch as suggested somewhere. I did confirm that overheating was

happening in my case - the temperature was going a bit over 120 F after 25 hours

of incubation. So I bought a dimmer switch and played around with it where I

let it incubate for full power for about 4 hours, put it to about 85% for

overnight incubation, then to about 60% for the rest of the time starting in the

morning. This pretty much leaves a consistent temperature of ~110F though most

of the incubation time (I tested the temperature at each interval).

Now recently after trying this " improved " yogurt I noticed there is more gas

than usual and also bleeding and mucus (which was not there before). So I

stopped the yogurt and things got better. So I'm wondering if the yogurt with

more live bacteria in it is in fact NOT good for me? Interestingly, I also

remember that once when I was quite stable, I decided to take probiotic tablets

that had lots of legal live cultures only (no bifidus) and no illegal

ingredients added (it was SCD legal probiotic). And the same symptoms appeared

after taking these tablets, blood and mucus and then when I stopped the

probiotics, things eventually got better. So what could be happening? Could

too much live legal bacteria actually not be good? Could it be that for most

of the time when I was on SCD and doing well I was just eating yogurt with dead

bacteria in it? Anyways, now I've gone back to making the yogurt without the

dimmer switch in the hopes that things will return to normal. Hopefully I'll

know soon.

Any comments/suggestions/similar observations?

B

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