Right before I left the U.S. I purchased Complete Probiotics from Dr. Mercola (online health guru). . . . I did not have the time needed to give these probiotics a good try before I left the States so I went ahead and purchased quite a bit. After arriving here in Beijing I began taking them just to find out they were not working well for me. I still think it is a good product, just not right for me.
I have 7 bottles total. 5 bottles expiration date: May 2011. 2 bottles expiration date: Dec. 2010
This batch I have has [in each capsule] 2 billion CFU [colony-forming units] and 500 mg of FOS [Fructooligosaccharides]. There are 90 V-caps per bottle. They are all completely sealed with shrink bands
Dr. Mercola’s sale price is $30 U.S.D. for a single bottle and about $25 U.S.D./each for a 3-pack. [the 3-pack costs $75]
She doesn’t say why they’re not right for her. I make kombucha for pennies per day. Homemade yogurt costs a few dimes per day. Also, they’re delicious, the kombucha is thirst-quenching, and the yogurt, as a condiment, improves many other dishes (salmon, soup, hamburger). So they’re easy to eat, whereas the vitamin pills I take I have to force myself to swallow. Because I am close to the making of the kombucha and yogurt — I sample them during brewing — I am sure that they have plenty of bacteria. With pills made in a factory, hard to be sure. And hard to know what those expiration dates mean.
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She doesn’t say why they’re not right for her. I make kombucha for pennies per day. Homemade yogurt costs a few dimes per day. Also, they’re delicious, the kombucha is thirst-quenching, and the yogurt, as a condiment, improves many other dishes (salmon, soup, hamburger). So they’re easy to eat, whereas the vitamin pills I take I have to force myself to swallow. Because I am close to the making of the kombucha and yogurt — I sample them during brewing — I am sure that they have plenty of bacteria. With pills made in a factory, hard to be sure. And hard to know what those expiration dates mean.