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Creating Buzz

I agreed, I believe, to receive free samples of Align, the Proctor & Gamble probiotic that’s currently showing up in ads on many web sites. It seems that personal blogs, such as ForMyTummy (this blog), Life in a Bathroom, and utenzi at Blogspot have received offers of free samples of Align. We are to take it and presumably report favorably on our blogs, or at least report

I published the following summary of a recent research study on probiotics last October, and am republishing it now. The reason is that the demise of Zelnorm calls for sound solutions backed, if possible, by medical research. Note that this site has never endorsed Zelnorm. Here’s the summary–
A study of the use of probiotics with […]

Probiotics

One thing that helped ease my transition from Amoxicillin to “normal” ibs-c, was that I had started taking probiotics during the Amoxicillin phase.
Probiotics? What are they?
Well, recent research has begun to show that various “good bacteria” or “pro” meaning positive, “biotics” meaning something like biological agents, ease the difficulties of IBS for people with IBS-C […]