Acidophilus - good or bad??

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I am glad to say that I have been on the diet for a few months now and am doing

extremely well. I have just started to take a acidophilus supplement made by

Lyosan. I have been hearing noting but good things about probiotics but I

recently check the knowledge base on the SCD website and found this:

Elaine spent a year doing library research on probiotics and realised that the

whole area is very iffy. The one conclusion that she came out with is: " That

Lactobacillus acidophilus had been shown to be very helpful for many

schizophrenics, bowel patients, etc. over a period of 100 years. "

However, a report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine by a

gastroenterologist that stated that one doctor found that all his Crohn's

patients had an OVERGROWTH of Lactobacillus acidophilus which he felt was

contributing to the disease. Unfortunately this found its way into the reference

books that pharmacies use.

Elaine feels that we should keep our probiotic ingestion to a minimum and get

helpful bacteria from our SCD™ yoghurt and so displace the harmful bacteria.

I know that this only sounds mildly negative but it has me worried, especially

the part about Crohn's patients having an OVERGROWTH of Lactobacillus

acidophilus. Please advise me about this.

Thanks,

Ron