Dr. Mindy here! Let's talk Probiotics if you've been following me
at all this last week I've been putting a lot of information out about Psychobiotics
and how you get good strains of bacteria into your gut and on your skin
and from the air and a lot of the feedback I got from people was well " How
do you know if your Probiotics working for you? How do you know which Probiotics
you should be taking? " so what I wanted to do with this Facebook live was give you
like the ins and outs of picking the right probiotic for you okay so first
thing know that there are gut tests that you can now take we like the one we use
one called Gut Zoomer that will actually tell you specifically which bacteria you
are deficient in or which bacteria you have too much of personally I love this
because I can Zone in and go oh I know that this person is low in this
particular strain of bacteria and I know that this probiotic is going to help
with that deficiency so the Microbiome in general is so brand new we are just
learning about it and this level of matching one-to-one has just it's
basically brand new because we're getting more diversity of probiotics so
my first way is test figure it out do a stool test if you want information on
our Gut Zoomer and just put Gut Zoomer in the comments and we'll
send you a link and you can go research it so that would be the my first way.
Second thing you need to know about a probiotic is that there are probiotics
and there are prebiotics so when you're taking a probiotic you really
want to make sure it has a prebiotic in it for example the one we use MBC by
Systemic Formulas has both of those in there how do you know if something's a
prebiotic it's the couple of the keywords FOS is a prebiotic you'll see
it on a lot of a lot of supplement labels
inulin is a prebiotic a name for a prebiotic sometimes it just says on the
label prebiotic blend but a probiotic is putting good bacteria in a prebiotic is
the food for the good bacteria so one really cool thing that we're pretty
excited about that systemic formulas recently did is they've got a new Neuro-Biotic
that's out and this is to help with serotonin levels and dopamine and
so this is all the probiotic in this container here and this is the food for
the probiotic so I always tell my patients it's like feeding a little pet
that's inside of you you know if you if you add new pet members in you got it
something that's gonna feed them so that they can stay alive okay if all you're
doing is adding more pets but you're not giving them food you're gonna have to
just keep adding more pets over and over and over again so you want a probiotic
with a prebiotic make sense now there are some great foods this came up last
week when I started talking about the Neuro-Biotic I had some interesting comment where people are
like oh she's just trying to sell her new probiotic I am NOT trying to
sell you my new probiotic. I'm trying to help give you tools to be happier so let
me give you some ideas on what you can do to get some really good bacteria in
your body dirt so there's a great mood enhancing probiotic in this supplement
called M. vaccae I talked about it last week you can get
it in dirt get your hands into dirt there's a wonderful group probiotic in
here called L. Plantarum and you can get that from
kimchi so I got a blog post coming out tomorrow listing all the different types
of bacteria that enhance your mood and where you can get them so if you're
interested in that just put blog post and I'll make sure you get a copy of
that but that's the SOS that's like that's the one oh you know probiotics
101 that's what you need to look for basically the best thing to do is to
test if you don't want to do that then the next
best thing is make sure you're taking a combo probiotic and prebiotic next best
thing is go with a system that is actually linking prebiotic powder with
the probiotic itself okay what that helps if you have any questions please
reach out and my last final advice to you is remember when you're dealing with
the microbiome diversity is key you got it you got to come at it from all these
angles so with my patients I have a eating kimchi and getting their hands in
dirt and putting skin colonizer on their skin that has probiotics in it and
changing their toothpaste and doing psycho biotics with the prebiotic and
then the next month I have them do a regular probiotic so it's diversity and
coming at it but if you're taking the same probiotic over and over and over
again and you're doing the same can boot up over and over and over again at some
point it's not working for you so you need to have more flexibility and more
diversity okay what that helps let me know thumbs up or helpful that does give
me an idea of if this information is resonating with you because I do it for
you I want you two to live the happiest best life you possibly can.
Have an awesome day!