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Anecdotal evidence from someone who's been through some of the worst digestive issues possible (stops in involuntary peristalsis/motility, food not digesting) due to "bad" bacteria being continuously introduced from infection elsewhere: yogurt.

Specifically kefir/filmjölk. Buy a bottle, take a serving in the morning, and at night if you like/can afford.

I've turned my life around. Friends have stopped proton pump inhibitors/antacids like Prilosec/Omeprezole, etc, because of this simple lifestyle switch (one serving per day). I take many more.




Also, foods with digestive fiber feed good bacteria, and stop them from munching on YOU, aka, gut inflammation, which is also a big thing we're somehow just learning about now, with relation to how it can ruin your entire life (no exaggeration) with stuff like cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's most likely, etc.


Would like to hear more about how the change in your lifestyle and food habits made a difference. If you don't mind sharing, you can email me, my email id's in my profile.


> the morning, and at night if you like/can afford.

If you have an instapot or yogurt maker, for $2.5, you can make a gallon of yogurt which lasts me about 1-2 weeks. I started my culture with a tub of Activia that my sister left in the fridge ~ a year ago.

Kimchi is also cheap to make yourself, although it does take a bit more prep.


You can also try prebiotic. It’s a blend of short chain sugars meant to preferentially feed “good” colonic bacteria.




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