Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | DA effectiveness and cost

It is interesting to hear the reports about DA. A number of people have reported success for a few days to a couple of weeks. However, I don't recall anyone claiming to have had long term success. If there are people who have had long term success with DA it would be nice to hear from them.

Ganeden Biotech, the developers of DA, have an interesting probiotic delivery technology. It embeds the probiotic - Bacillus coagulans - in an organic material that can be stored at room temperature. And it will survive stomach acids and bile resulting in more probiotic reaching the colon where it can grow.

Unfortunately there is no publicly reported clinical evidence to show that Bacillus coagulans is beneficial for IBS. And the strenght of the probiotic in CFU s (colony forming units), an accepted standard unit of measurement, is not given. I called the company and the only information they would give me was the number of mg each capsule contains. They could not give me the CFUs. By the way, the only difference between DA for IBS and Sustenex is that Sustenex contains about 25% Bacillus coagulans by weight.

An IBS suffer has no idea if Bacillus coagulans has any beneficial affects or how much DA to take to get the strenght of probiotic required to produce beneficial effects. That is why DA is so cheap.

On the other hand VSL#3 and Align have under gone clinical trials on IBS suffers. The results are reported in the research literature. While there are no guarantees that you will benefit from either of these probiotics at least there is some evidence to supporting their use as a management tool for IBS. It costs a lot of money to do the clinical research. That is why they are expensive.

I want to know that I am not spending money for an antibiotic to kill a virus, metaphorically speaking, which won't work. There are 500+ species of bacteria living in the colon. It will take some time to figure out bacteria are useful probiotics of IBS. I might have to wait a bit longer

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