A new Probiotics Source

A reader forwarded a Bulgaria supplier site to me. I was delighted to see their offerings!

Probiotics availability is a complex area with national laws restricting access. A good example is the US: if you are not producing a grandfathered species then there is a massive amount of testing to get approved for sale. A good example is Mutaflor, E.Coli Nissle 1917, which cannot be sold in the US despite a literal century of safe use in Europe.

This is further complicated because a probiotic claiming to be a specific species may be tested and depending on the test used be found to not be there, a different species or as claimed. There is no standardization of microbiome testing See this post for the background.

In most of Western Countries, there is a huge profit margin for probiotics, 10x or 20x the cost of production is not unusual. Often manufacturers will often prevent the import of foreign probiotics citing safety or lack of “in country safety tests”. Some people may find that they cannot import those below.

Bottom line: I take claims of species in a probiotic on face value. See bottom on selecting probiotics given a microbiome sample; most of these have very few clinical studies in English. I will be adding these to the probiotic search page over the next week.

The predicted / model impact of each probiotic above can be estimated from this page.

Over the next week, I will attempt to add modelled impact on each of these combinations on a microbiome sample using the link below on the suggestions page.

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