Specific bacterial strains like lactobacillus 299v, bacillus caogulauns, others?

Has anyone experimented with specific bacterial strains and seen how they impact their colitis? There are some probiotics on the market with 1 specific strain such as Lactobacillus Planatarum 299v or Bacillus Coagulans or Saccharomyces Boulardii, Lactobacillus Acidopholous and on and on and on. There are quite a few out there!

I have tested out several of these and noted down how my UC has responded to each. I definitely think there is specific impacts to my UC by each of these different strains. I have however not tested all the different ones yet because it is expensive and just challenging in general but I would like to.

Has anyone had success with any specific strain in particular? Can you share which strain and how it is helping you and how you take it (example: with or without food)?

Very interesting on Lactobacillus Rhanosus GG. What was the specific impact you had seen with this strain? I have a bottle of this strain but I haven't tested it and it might have some additives in it, I will check. But, I do remember reading that this is one of the strains beneficial for UC. S. Boulardii I am planning to test as well.

IamCurious said...
Saccharomyces Boulardii is especially useful while on antibiotics because it is a beneficial probiotic YEAST, so it isn't destroyed by antibiotics.

Hands down, my most effective probiotic was Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG. But that was several years ago when it was relatively clean without any additives. Now it no longer works for me probably because they added junk like maltodextrin and titanium dioxide.

Same with VSL#3. It used to work fine before they added junk to the ingredients. Lactobacillus Reuteri (NCIMB 30242) is in my signature and it seems to help but not as well as the probiotics previously mentioned before they became adulterated.