probiotic puzzles/Re: bacteria now!

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> Perhaps, like what Jordan Rubin says, it was the soil itself that

> > provided numerous beneficial bacteria. The soil would be

inhaled > > and also consumed on the foods that our cave brethren

ate. > > The soil of the last 100 years may be quite different than

the more > > freshly remineralized soil of thousands of years ago.

If you > > combine that with the fact that pesticides are now in

use, we clean > > our foods more carefully, and we spend more time

indoors> > inhaling dust rather than soil, it's no wonder we may be

deficient > > in certain organisms that you won't find in dairy,

cabbage, etc.

> >

> > -Dave

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I think in England there is a probiotic supplement which is based on

soil bacteria. Someone over there (hospital?) was doing a study to

see if the supplement would help childhood eczema. They figured

that the children never got these good bacteria as all our food is

washed, kids can't play in the dirt as much as they used to, etc.