On 30/05/2016 1:30 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "l not -l" > wrote in message
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>> On 29-May-2016, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>>> > On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 1:18:55 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> When Mom was alive she kept seeing ads for probiotics. She was like,
>>> >> "What's that?" Beats me, but be assured they're trying to sell you
>>> >> yogurt.
>>> >>
>>> >> Jill
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> > Probiotics have more good bacteria than just plain
>>> > yogurt. I learned they can REALLY help with severe
>>> > gut issues that for some unfathomable reason I was
>>> > plagued with 2 years ago two or three times. I
>>> > take a probiotic capsule daily and that misery seems
>>> > to be a thing of the past. Don't know what brought it
>>> > on either.
>>>
>>> We now know that one reason for the appendix is that it's a natural
>>> source
>>>
>>> of probiotics. People who have had theirs removed, need to supplement.
>> How do we know this, an article in Prevention, or similar, magazine or
>> peer-reviewed, published research? It seems odd that if this is true
>> medical knowledge, that no doctor has suggested probiotics to me in
>> the 66
>> years I have been without an appendix (removed as a young child).
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> My naturopath first told me this.

Naturopaths are quacks. If you believe him, you'll believe anything!