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I've had this question for a while and keep meaning to ask Boaz during my appointments but always forget! Can someone offer some insight as to why we take the probiotics at the same time as our cleansing herbs? I remember reading, way back, from some patients from several years ago that they took theirs a few hours away from the herbs, so as not to kill the good bacteria in the probiotics. But now we're instructed to take everything at the same time. I've always heard this is what you should do when taking antibiotics, even from Western docs.
I'm on some strong cleansing herbs and am worried the good guys are getting cancelled out! Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks,
Katy
HI Katy. I know what you mean
HI Katy. I know what you mean, but my guess is that as ICers we have unique status of being highly prone to inflammation (overreactive immune system, to keep it simple). So even though taking them together may cancel out some of the effects, we need to take everything together to "buffer" the effect of taking things by themselves. This is why we always take Juice Plus caps together (green and red) even tho I have seen it recommended sometimes to take them seperately. If we took them seperately we would have increased pain.
Also, the adaptogenic herbs (rhodiola and siberian) are often prescribed together with whatever else we are taking to help our body manage the other things. They keep the immune system from overreacting
Finally, the probiotics, the herbs, even the western herbs have Chinese "properties" that they need to balance. Digesta-lac is a "warm" probiotic, whereas Megadophilus is cooler I think. They look at this too and keep it all balanced depending on what our bodies need at the time, based on our symptoms and where we are in treatment.
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