Here is another “everyone knows” issue, to go along with my favorite: “Everyone knows debt is bad.” (You know what I feel about “everyone knows.”)
Everyone knows yogurt is healthful, because it contains beneficial bacteria that force out any harmful bacteria in your gut. But, if these beneficial bacteria multiply in your gut, why would anyone have to eat yogurt more than once? And if they don’t multiply, aren’t they forcing out the beneficial bacteria already in your gut that do multiply?
Anyone know the answer?
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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I believe that acidophilus is beneficial. I have my doubts about driving out harmful bacteria, however. First, because of evolution. If acidophilus drove out the harmful bacteria in nature, why do the harmful bacteria still exist? By the name we know that acidophilus bacteria are adapted to acid environments, like the gut, so they should compete well with bacteria that are not adapted to acid environments. That is not exactly the same as driving them out, however. Second, unrefrigerated yogurt goes sour. How come? Lactic acid bacteria. Acidophilus does not drive them out. 😉
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Boy, is my face red.
Acidophilus is a form of lactic acid bacteria. Pardon my ignorance. 😦
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You shouldn’t have to eat more beneficial bacteria. That is as long as the bad bacteria doesn’t grow at a higher rate then the beneficial bacteria.
If growth in beneficial bacteria doesn’t multiply so much then you need more and more beneficial bacteria to make sure you have a constant growth of beneficial bacteria which is higher than the bad bacteria.
Now, one can argue then that eating yogurt goes through the system much too fast and thus can’t multiply as first thought it could. Thus, you need a probiotic instead (like Culturelle) that acts as Super Yogurt born from technology, research, and pure greed which then sticks around much longer multiplying and multiplying and thus reducing the number of bad bacteria.
(Note: Many would think Culturelle was a government stimulus program, but they would be incorrect. Most government stimulus programs just make you feel bloated/gassy and later leads to diarrhea.)
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