I have finally got round to trying this specialist probiotic - and started taking it this week.
There have been a few posts about this "psychobiotic" - a very specific genus of bacteria alleged to help with PD and other brain stuff. It obviously is of great interest to Winnie the Poo - microbiome and all that being my big interest.
The research reports online are mostly from people linked to patent holders or manufacturers, and results on this forum have been mixed - as is so often the way with this snowflake disease.
I wonder how much that is attributable to its requirement to be kept refrigerated. When it first launched in Europe, it was an Italian supplier, who supplied refrigerated packages, and for all practical purposes it was unavailable to me here in France. Then Synergia, a French manufacturer started supplying it marketed as "Neurobiotique" - with unrefrigerated transport, but advice that it should be kept in the fridge (stockage at 4-7 degrees centigrade - fridge temperatures). Just as I was about to try it - it went out of stock for months
It's back in stock. I have a box. I had a "stick" in Danone yoghurt on Saturday, 2 sticks Sunday, a stick yesterday, and today...
A "yoghurt" I fermented from a stick and some whole milk last night. And it is a good solid yoghurt - nothing special to taste (nor is its consistency best commercially). But it demonstrates that at least that stick had survived and had viable freeze-dried bacteria in it.
I will probably finish the litre of yoghurt I've made, and then go back to the sticks. But useful to establish it had survived transport (in winter) and useful as a backup if they run out of stock again
I wonder how many people who didn't benefit from PS128 had transport and stockage issues, and as a result didn't have viable bacteria.
Obviously, being Winnie the Poo - I sweeten my yoghurt with hunny!