Greetings.
Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand.
The question today is "Can I take probiotics with antibiotics?"
Of course, you can do that, but why would you want to do that?
Why would you want to expose yourself to the risk of killing off beneficial bacteria with
a drug that's designed to be antibiosis or anti-life?
It doesn't make sense to me.
You're better off finishing off the course of antibiotics and then going onto probiotics.
But why would you want to take an antibiotic in the first place?
Many people I see take them for crazy reasons.
Crazy reasons.
And then they take them again and again and again.
Over the course of the last 31 years of the many tens of thousands of people I've seen
in my clinic, I've noticed that a very large percentage of people who have never been well
since on antibiotics.
They take them again and again and again.
Why would they take them?
A recurring theme is for facial acne.
A recurring theme could be for digestive discomfort.
Some people actually take them as a precaution, which his crazy.
Why would you want to do that?
Taking a probiotic alongside an antibiotic doesn't really make much sense.
You really want to finish the course first and then take the probiotic.
When you take the probiotic, please make sure that you take foods in your diet that support
the encouragement and development of beneficial bacteria.
These are prebiotic foods.
Try not to fall for the hype of prebiotic crap inside capsules or powders because a
lot of prebiotics actually support bad bacterial fermentation.
You can get farting and bloating by having prebiotics.
I'm very careful to avoid prebiotics.
I just attended a show in Las Vegas where I was very excited to find a particular prebiotic,
which I am going to incorporate into one of my products.
After a lot of research into it, I think it's going to hold the key and it's going to be
put in a very special capsule that releases the prebiotic in a different part of the gut
than the probiotic.
So it's a very clever and ingenious way to make sure that we've got targeted delivery
of the pre and the pro.
Please make sure you eat the right foods if you're taking probiotics.
There's no point in taking a probiotic capsule and swallowing it down with a mouth full of
vodka or beer or coca cola.
Doesn't really make sense.
There's no point in taking probiotics if you eat pizzas or if you eat crap food.
There's point is there?
Please support probiotics after antibiotics with no alcohol in your diet and a very good
intake of the correct foods that build this health.
What kind of foods are we talking about?
Healthy foods.
Green, leafy vegetables, in particular, the brassicas like broccoli and cauliflower.
When I say that, you don't need a whole plate full of broccoli.
You might have a small amount to start with or you could get a bit of bloating and gas.
Spinach, green beans, asparagus, lettuce.
The list goes on and on.
You can read more about these foods on yeastinfection.org.
I've done YouTube videos on them.
You can go to EricBakker.com.
I've got a lot of papers written on these particular foods.
I won't go into too much detail about that.
But just to reiterate.
Finish your course of antibiotics.
Take the probiotics.
How long should you take probiotics?
How long is a piece of rope?
You need to take them for a long time until you feel that they've really benefited your
gut and got you to a very good state of health.
Check out CanXida Restore for that reason.
I created that product to restore the gut and it's really effective after antibiotics
because it also contains enzymes that allow the proper fermentation of food and then six
types of probiotics that encourage the beneficial bacteria to come back again.
It's designed to hit the spot exactly where you want those bacteria in the small intestine,
in the large intestine, and it won't get affected by bile or stomach acid.
Check it out.
Thanks for tuning in.