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Posted 9/4/2015 9:47 PM (GMT -5)
i have one that's 100 million , one that is a billion and one that is two million is it ok to take all 3 of these in a single day or seperate them.....is there such a thing as too much of probiotics or no
Posted 9/4/2015 9:59 PM (GMT -5)
Doubtful. The human body hosts trillions of "good" bacteria and I believe you get 10's of billions of good bacteria from the foods you eat daily.
Posted 9/4/2015 10:33 PM (GMT -5)
There is if your gut is unhealthy and leaky. Too many probiotics, or the wrong kind, entering the blood stream can cause reactions.

Take it easy and increase slowly. If you find you are reacting to a newly introduced species, try omitting it.
Posted 9/5/2015 7:45 AM (GMT -5)
yes, there is. too much of anything is never good. You just need to know what is right for you. When I stopped antibiotics and continued on the probiotic dose I was on, as instructed by my Dr, I kept breaking out on my face. It was overload, so I switched to Florastor, and now it's all good! I honestly don't see a need to take so many different ones....is this what your Dr instructed you do? Are you on antibiotics currently? Because if you are, then the doses you are mentioning are actually too low!
Posted 9/5/2015 8:38 AM (GMT -5)
We take a number of different probiotics. Rotating Align and Culturelle in the mornings, and then rotating through AOR probiotic 3, PrescriptAssist, and RenewLife Ultimate Flora, a different one each evening.

The gut contains many thousands of different species, so replacing only one may just not work. Antibiotics and antimicrobial herbs kill pretty widely, so trying to reintroduce a range of bacteria may be more effective.

But again, you need to introduce different probiotics the way you would introduce new antibiotics. One product at a time and slowly to see if you have a negative reaction.

And yes, the doses you mention are low. We regularly take 50 - 75 billion probiotic organisms a day, and more when we add kefir and fermented vegetables.
Posted 9/5/2015 9:29 AM (GMT -5)
The big question is are you reacting negatively to them? In a perfect world it would be hard to take too many, you naturally have around 500 trillion bacteria living in your gut. So even a probiotic that has 100 billion is still just a drop in the bucket and demonstrates why you want to find one with as high a dose as possible.
However I have seen many people with SIBO who couldn't handle them, most of those 500 trillion live in the colon and not the small intestine. So taking a probiotic can be putting bacteria in the wrong place.
Most of the time when people can't handle a probiotic it is because of prebiotics like inulin. A lot of probiotics contain these and they react badly with some forms of dysbiosis, one theory is the prebiotic is actually feeding the pathogenic microbes as well as the probiotic microbes. Read what is on the lable and experiment to see if prebiotics are the problem.
A good probiotic to take is bulardi. It is not normal flora and isn't supposed to get established in your gut but it does acidify your intestines on its way through and makes the conditions favorable for lactobacteria to grow. Raw garlic, if you can handle it, kills many types of bacteria, molds, fungus, yeast and some viruses but doesn't hurt lactobacteria so it has a similar effect to bulardi but a different mechanism of accomplishing it.
Posted 9/5/2015 12:59 PM (GMT -5)
I took too many and cured one symptom only to create another. Now I take them as I feel needed. On average after abx treatment, my week off I mean, I load up first day somewhere around 50-75 billion. Then there after I dwindle down and this restores my stomach and intestines within a matter of days, only to eradicated with the next weeks dose of abx. This works for me very well.
Posted 9/6/2015 9:04 AM (GMT -5)
Chapelle you said thats not enough lol? I take one thats 100 million, ones that a billion and one thats 2 million, the 100 million one in the afternoon and the billion and 2 million ones together at night, Im not on any pills just the Buhnor herbs for lyme, bab, bart and I started taking plexus supplements for my gut(nothings wrong with it) just trying to boost it
Posted 9/6/2015 11:31 AM (GMT -5)
myeezy24 - One of my Probiotics (the one that my LLND instructed me to take) - each capsule is 10 billion.

I take 4-6 daily plus I add another one that I buy at my local health food store.

So, we're not talking millions, but several billion...
Posted 9/6/2015 12:05 PM (GMT -5)
darn i guess ill have to take more than what i am now then
Posted 9/6/2015 3:51 PM (GMT -5)
I take a 50 billion capsule every morning.
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