We know that 67% of PwP have insulin resistance and a high % have leaky gut and SIBO.
So:
Refilling the gut with probiotics should help repair the gut lining and reduce the presence of harmful bacteria.
Anyone tried it? Does it conflict with the no-dairy recommendation somehow?
This company makes a non-dairy yogurt and kefir: foragerproject.com/all-prod...
Available in many supermarkets.
I make my own water kefir which I think is better than the milk version. Best to Google it. I take it on an empty stomach in morning. Too much gives you diarrhoea, so you have to find what amount is best for you. I take 200mls
Does it help with anything?
Low fat milk has more of a connection to Parkinson's than a full fat milk. I was wondering about that also.
I only use minimal organic full fat milk in muesli and tea now. I was given the "grains" for water kefir by a friend because they multiply very quickly, but you can buy them on Internet. For the 2nd fermentation I add frozen berries, raspberries and cherries being my favourite. It makes a lovely drink, so the temptation is there to take too much! Be careful to follow all instructions, e.g. don't use any metal cutlery, because they somehow don't like that.
When we took kefir over a 5 years period we never caught any infectionswhen I accidentally killed our culture and didn't replace it we started to catch anything going.So possibly it also protects the immune system
I have a kefir-based smoothie everyday for lunch. I use Lifeway brand 1% milk-based kefir. I cannot prove that it's beneficial, but for what it's worth my MDS says that after 9 years my progression remains among the slowest of his hundreds of clinical patients.
I use kefir daily for breakfast, soaking muesli in it over night with flax, chia etc. It had no impact on constipation, but tastes good. I use Yeo Valley, which is more creamy & yoghurt-like.
Zoe have some good podcasts on gut biome, not PD specific but digestible.
I’m not worrying about the dairy. Partly because I’m using organic, and I assume that the bad effects were about pesticides in the milk rather than a problem with fat or protein. And partly because I really enjoy cheese…
I had the same thoughts you did about improving gut health, so I bought some kefir grains on Amazon and started making our own kefir milk. I use A2 beta casein milk because it might be easier to digest than A1. Hopefully it’s worth the cost and trouble of making it, but I really don’t know.
if you are worried about dairy, but want to increase beneficial microbiome , another option to look at might be sauerkraut? Completely different I know, but I found that helpful for constipation and general health
I use kefir from a company called Chuckling Goat in UK which is goats milk kefir. It contains about 30 beneficial bacteria whereas supermarket brands only have a few. I also find I rarely get ill so I’m sure it does improve immune system function. I’m pretty sure my PD started in gut so my thought was I would try to improve my gut health to slow progression/ heal my body!
I take unpasteurised Sauerkraut daily, along with Pickled Beetroot juice, which I buy from my local Polish grocery store.
(I live in the UK, where most supermarkets don't stock these products - certainly not the unpasteurised ones required for gut microbiome benefits)
Not based on any recommendation specifically, just the philosophy of feeding the gut lots of healthy bacteria being a good thing for PwP to do.
Hope that helps.
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