[Tuli]

I use friendly bacteria (pro-biotics) which are a good aid for digestion. Just get a good grade (normally refrigerated in your health food store). They have many benefits - keeping down the populations of harmful bacteria such as Candida, for one, and repopulating the intestines with the helpful ones. Particularly important if you have had a course of antibiotics or a clay and psyllium cleanse that strip the body from everything including these helpful little creatures.

[lisa32989]

Homemade sauerkraut will work too. The store-bought stuff is pasteurized and pasteurization kills all the beneficial critters. I've learned a lot from the Paleo diet people!

[dizzyjean]

I need to try something! I have battled this the whole time on IP- starting end of April. Now I'm in phase 3....and I am still finding my system does not want to move. Arg! I was hoping that good greek yogurt would help...but no.

[lisa32989]

Originally Posted by dizzyjean

I need to try something! I have battled this the whole time on IP- starting end of April. Now I'm in phase 3....and I am still finding my system does not want to move. Arg! I was hoping that good greek yogurt would help...but no.

Commercial yogurts are pasteurized too, so really the good bugs just aren't there. Several people were talking about homemade yogurt a while back. With the right starter, that might be a possibility.

[Tuli]

Originally Posted by lisa32989

Homemade sauerkraut will work too. The store-bought stuff is pasteurized and pasteurization kills all the beneficial critters. I've learned a lot from the Paleo diet people!

Great advice, but for those of us more challenged in he kitchen area, like me, or not partial to sauerkraut, I find good quality ones - like New Chapter - work fine, if a little pricey. They are definitely not pasteurized as they contain live organisms.