There are a vast number of supplements on the market. They come in different price points and have different strains of bacteria and various numbers of colony-forming units.
In order to provide optimum health and weight loss benefits, it helps if a probiotic has a variety of bacteria strains, specifically from the lactobacillus bacteria family. It’s also important that it contain a high number of CFU’s — in the billions.
Dr Tobias Deep Immune Probiotic
With an impressive 4.4 billion CFUs and four different strains of bacteria (including Lactobacillus acidophilus), this popular probiotic supplement scores major points among Amazon reviewers — more than 5,900 of them, to be exact. It has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and, unlike many other probiotics, has built-in probiotics that further boost its digestive benefits.
Dr Tobias Deep Immune Probiotic, $23, Amazon
Reviews are everything on Amazon. And this probiotic boosts plenty of good ones.
One reviewer writes: “It worked more quickly than I expected; usually with supplements I have to wait at least 2 weeks before I can really judge their effectiveness. I can tell whether a probiotic is working by the reduced bloating feeling and gas I'm experiencing (I'm 57 years old) and my bloating has largely gone away after a little over a week of daily, as-directed use.”
Another writes: “I'm only 3 weeks into using the Deep Immune probiotics, but so far I am extremely happy! In my experience when starting probiotics the first thing I notice is an improvement in digestion. Usually this takes at least 4 weeks of use to notice any improvement, but with these probiotics I noticed an improvement at the beginning of the 2nd week!”
If supplements are not for you, but you still want to benefit from probiotics, fill your diet will fermented foods like yogurt, miso, and kimchi — all of which contain gut-cleansing amounts of probiotics.