Probiotics sticking

The lining of our gastrointestinal tract is highly populated surface without a lot of empty spots. Think of it like NYC's Time Square on new years eve, everyone's been there a long time before the evening's festivities and there's hardly room to move. In comes a bunch of new busses full of new and enthusiastic people (your probiotic) and everybody wants the best spot but there's only so much room physically available. I'm sure some probiotic colonization does occur, but there's no guarantee that it's permanent as the gastrointestinal tract is a pretty dynamic and competitive place. As someone else (another bacteria or fungus) could be better at reproducing given the current environment and available resources than the probiotic, so instead takes over and muscles out the probiotic. Or perhaps somebody else already has a stong enough of a pre-established foothold to not let other new probiotics colonize in sufficient quantities. So, I'd say the probiotics have an effect but not a lasting effect for that reason. The probiotics likely work as they transit through (consuming resources that others would likely use).

they will only continue to thrive and be happy if the gut is sorted - once my gut healed, i no longer needed probiotics - i do still eat fermented foods tho -

I've had luck helping symptoms of my colitis by creating energized/ EZ water. The positive health effect for me lasts a day or two. I figure after that the EZ diminishes or is used up. Hard to say.

I listened to an interview with of Dr. Pollack on EZ water. There are several ways to make EZ and apparently taking probiotics is a method. Don't know if that could account for your observation but thought to mention.

The interview and write up with mention on probiotics can be seen here:

Interview With Dr Gerald Pollack: Using Water For Optimal Health

https://selfhacked.com/2015/05/22/interview-with-dr-gerald-pollack-using-water-for-optimal-health/

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