There are several options in where to buy lactobacillus acidophilus, and those options are not all equal.

Like many nutritional products, lactobacillus acidophilus can be found in retail outlets, from chain store pharmacies to health food storefronts. There are many, many choices in places like these, and therein lies the reason why none of them are very good. Have you ever found a knowledgeable clerk to help you determine the best product for you? And if you did find a clerk, where they able to tell you which of the many lactobacillus acidophilus products on the shelf was the best one to buy??? They can’t because there is no “best” product. If there was, there wouldn’t be so many choices. Any store worth its salt would carry only the “best”.

What about online ordering? This certainly offers the advantage of to-your-door delivery and you can find a variety of lactobacillus acidophilus products online, but most of them are just long-distance versions of the many product options you find in offline stores.

The best place to buy lactobacillus acidophilus is from a health company that is science-driven, is fully committed to creating healthier lives, and holds itself to the same quality control standards as pharmaceutical manufacturers. Fortunately, this place is available online, it meets all the criteria for the best probiotics on the market to take, and it is the only place where I would buy lactobacillus acidophilus.

Probiotics has become a fairly common term in the field of nutritional supplements, but lately we’re hearing more and more about prebiotics as well. Are they related? What’s the difference?

Where does the term probiotics come from? A literal translation would be “for life” and when it comes to colon care and intestinal microflora, probiotics are the good bacteria bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillus acidophilus, often shortened to acidophilus, that should be living there. And while they are distinguished from prebiotics, they most definitely are not contrary to prebiotics, In fact, the two work together.

Prebiotics (yep, the literal translation would be “before life”) are actually the food for the probiotics. Are we sure we want to feed the bacteria inside us? Well, the good bacteria we do. And prebiotics such as fructooligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin selectively feed the good bacteria only, creating an environment where the good guys can grow and multiply, crowding out the bad guys. There is limited real estate in our intestines, and if there are sufficient good bacteria, the bad bacteria — the ones that make us ill, challenge the immune system, and wreak havoc on our digestive systems — are crowded out.

So the prebiotic component of acidophilus supplementation is an important partner to probiotic acidophilus, the actual good bacteria itself, the bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillus acidophilus. It makes the most sense to rely on a two-product system that delivers both of these partner components for healthy digestive balance.

With the many health benefits, probiotics can be a critical nutrient for children to take in supplement form.

Parents everywhere will be happy to know that there are probiotic acidophilus pearls that are ideal for children. I have been able to give these probiotics to toddlers as young as eighteen months. Whenever they are consuming soft table food, they can take this supplement. These pearls are quite small and do, in fact, look like small pearls (the jewel variety). They are small white beads that enterprising parents can get most any child to take. There are a few tricks to the trade, and in the interest of healthy children, I am more than happy to share them.

First of all, these little acidophilus pills or pearls are easy to swallow, and can be swallowed with a spoonful of applesauce or even baby food with ease. Now, I know there are some tykes who eat with glee and are not terribly discriminating. I also know there are others who detect even the smallest lump in their food and would resist the smallest intrusion into their culinary routine. With this kind, a parent has to be even more clever. A small pearl embedded in a piece of banana has gone down many a wee throat. And, for those suspicious little ones who balk at even that, a crunchier alternative is called for. While the propriety of cookies is a whole other subject, it does work to sneak an acidophilus pill or pearl into the creamy filling of a sandwich cookie. With the hard texture and crunching of the outer sides of the cookie, it is quite easy to camouflage the pearl and get it past the most finicky of eaters.

When a child is old enough to drink from a straw another tactic is to place the pearl at the very tip of the straw and encourage the child to drink his or her beverage through the straw (always a treat) just like a queen bee drinking her nectar (OK, this might work better for a little girl and only if the child isn’t old enough to know that queen bees don’t gather nectar!). A slight alternative to this option is to have the child place the acidophilus pill or pearl on the back of their tongue and then take a mighty draw on the straw. The force of the liquid headed down the hatch takes the pearl with it lickety split. Supplement taken and child no worse for the wear.

Some probiotics are marketed specifically for consumption by kids, but are in forms (such as liquid) that do not maintain the integrity or usefulness of the supplement. They may be in kid-friendly forms, but they don’t allow the full strength of the probiotics to reach their intended destination, and the efficacy is therefore severely diminished. This may not be as much of a concern with babies and infants who may not have sufficient levels of stomach acid to kill the probiotics that pass through in unprotected forms. If you already have acidophilus pearls, they can also be slightly dissolved in warm water and added to a little bit of breast milk or formula for safe, easy infant consumption.

Best of luck to you as you wisely incorporate probiotics into the nutritional support program of your child!

If you’re going to add an acidophilus supplement to your nutritional program, of course you want the best probiotics on the market to take. There are several things to look for.

• The supplement should have patented triple-layer seemless encapsulation technology using only natural ingredients to protect the microflora against oxygen, moisture and stomach acid
• The supplement should guarantee live delivery of the bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillus acidophilus to the intestine (and not just live bacteria at the time of manufacture)
• The supplement should NOT require refrigeration
• The supplement should maintain full potency whether taken on a full or empty stomach
• The supplement should be in an easy to swallow form
• The supplement should have no artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors, or preservatives added
• The supplement should offer a system of both prebiotics and probiotics

Acidophilus pills are a foundational part of a nutritional supplement program. They offer many health benefits and the patented triple encapsulated variety will ensure, if live delivery to the intestines is guaranteed, that you will have access to those benefits. And with a form of acidophilus pills that is super easy to swallow, there really is no excuse for not including them in your self-care program. The easiest to swallow are actually acidophilus pearls, tiny beads that do in fact look like pearls. Pills like pearls for a healthy you!

So, you’ve been learning about the difference between good bacteria and bad bacteria. Perhaps you’ve seen some of the many studies done on bacteria that sound like they’re from outer space: lactobacillis acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum. You may have read about the health benefits of these guys with weird names.

The natural outcome of this kind of discovery is to determine that you will pay attention to getting these good bacteria everyday. You arm yourself with a supply of yogurt. You cautiously decide to try something called sweet acidophilus milk. You commit to choking down some kefir every day. Maybe you’re even one of those people who likes the taste of kefir! You’re all set, right? Well, if the goal is to get the good guy bacteria to the place in your body where it will actually do some good, while your efforts are well-intended, they are far short of meeting the goal. How can that be? These foods contain lactobacillis acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum, don’t they?

The answer to that question is a qualified yes. What that means is that, while the food source itself does contain the good bacteria these little guys are surprisingly fragile. They are actually destroyed by exposure to air! So, when the container is taken off the food products, the good bacteria content starts to dissipate. (Don’t you wish the bad bacteria that make us sick were this delicate?!)

Then what happens? Well, you eat the foods, right? Therein, the good bacteria meet an even stronger foe – your stomach acid. That’s right. The stomach acid that we need to properly digest our food kills the good bacteria. Sure, some gets through to its intended destination – the colon – but there are many, many casualties along the way. So is it impossible to get a healthy serving of lactobacillis acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum every day?

Thankfully, no. It is possible to get full power lactobacillis acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum through what is commonly referred to as acidophilus capsules. OK, I know what  you’re thinking. Capsules might provide protection against air, but doesn’t the stomach acid still get to the good guys when the capsules are swallowed? With many acidophilus capsules, the answer is yes. And in fact, even exposure to air can decrease the number of live good bacteria in those capsules. So those are no more effective than the food sources at supplying the wanted good bacteria to the colon.

But there are patented acidophilus capsules that have medical technology to enable them to withstand the offenders and reach the colon alive and well, ready for action. These advanced acidophilus capsules have a triple coating, protecting the contents from air, moisture and stomach acid. You can meet your goal! Go ahead and have your yogurt and even kefir if you’d like, but don’t rely on them for your daily supply of lactobacillis acidophilus and bifidobacterium longum.

To supplement one’s diet with the healthy bacteria bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillus acidophilus, many of us turn to products that are commonly called probiotic acidophilus or acidophilus supplements or even just probiotics . There was a time when acidophilus supplements were typically seen as a stand-alone product, and were usually purchased that way as well. Now, though, the scientific understanding has advanced to make it clear that probiotic acidophilus is most effective when taken with prebiotics. Probiotics and prebiotics work together. To get the most health benefits from your probiotic acidophilus (and there are many!), support it with prebiotics as well.

There are many, many health benefits attributed to supplementation with healthy intestinal bacteria such as bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillis acidophilus, commonly referred to as acidophilus. First, let’s address why supplementation is necessary. We’re born with these good guy bacteria in the intestinal tract. What happens to them such that we have to replace them? Well, they have a host of enemies and we routinely bombard our bodies with these enemies. Things like stress; antibiotics (either taken for medicinal purposes or consumed in meat and dairy food products); alcohol; a low-fiber or high fat or high animal protein diet; pollution; pesticides, herbicides and insecticides in our food supply; and over the counter drugs all destroy good probiotic bacteria. Even the inevitable process of aging brings with it a natural decline in the numbers of bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillis acidophilus in our guts.

Let’s focus for a minute on the role of antibiotics in diminishing healthy intestinal microflora. Perhaps you have heard the term probiotics in referring to good bacteria such as bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillis acidophilus. Get the contrast? Pro-biotic and Anti-biotic? Antibiotics are not discriminate killers. So while their purpose is to kill bacteria that make animals or humans sick, they kill the good bacteria throughout the body at the same time.

And what becomes of our intestines when these good guy bacteria are no longer present in force? The bad guys have an opportunity to move in. Icky sounding bacteria like candida, e. coli, clostridium, pseudomonas, salmonella, staphylococcus aureus and streptococcus, and many, many more. The presence of the unwanted bacteria are responsible for many negative consequences. They are varied and individual (meaning not everyone experiences the same results) but can include flatulence and bloating, diarrhea and/or constipation, irritable bowel issues, allergies, candida overgrowth, acid reflux, recurrent ear infections, and immune system challenges. The decline of the good bacteria can even contribute to cancer (including colon cancer) and elevated cholesterol.

So what might we expect when we restore the healthy intestinal bacteria? Let’s first consider the impact of the good bacteria on the overall environment of the gut. Bifidobacterium longum and lactobacillis acidophilus thrive in the normal, healthy, low pH (acidic – not to be confused with stomach acid) environment of the gastrointestinal tract. Research shows that the metabolic byproducts of these friendly microflora help maintain this healthy, low pH intestinal environment. This same acidic environment discourages the growth of undesirable bacteria and helps maintain a healthy balance of intestinal microflora. We are then in a position to enjoy acidophilus health benefits that include improving mineral absorption, targeting candida and bacteria that cause infections, overcoming the bacteria that cause traveler’s trots, cancer prevention, strengthening the immune system so that the body is better equipped to deal with many health challenges, including recurrent ear infections and urinary tract infections, easing constipation, lowering cholesterol, converting good nutrients for absorption, countering the digestive upset that can result from antibiotic therapy and even chemotherapy and radiation, and promoting general colon health. A fairly impressive list, don’t you think?