Targeted Probiotic Taken After Gut Microbiome Testing
"I appreciated the reviews left so far. I qualify my review by sharing that I started on this product after completing a comprehensive stool panel offered through Genova Diagnostics in consultation with my functional medicine provider. If you are able to afford and access this test it may be useful to clarify whether you need this probiotic since as many of you know not all probiotics are the same. In my case my “good” gut flora was significantly deficient in this strain. I had negative experiences with some other multi-strain formulas in the recent past so I have started at a lower dose by opening up the capsule and sprinkling some on my food. It has been about two weeks so far and no adverse reactions. If you have had a bad reaction it may be that you are taking too high a dose to start with or you may already have enough of this strain populating your gut. Best wishes on this complex journey!"
Expensive, but may be worth it
"I have severe allergies to various foods as well as pollen, ragweed, cat dander and all usual environmental stuff. I also have IBS. I have had too many bouts of food poisoning, bacterial, viral and amoebic stomach infections. My allergies were getting worse and worse as I got older. I have traveled somewhat extensively around far east Asia, India and Brazil...fun, but risky for the stomach and just bad luck with food & water. My worst symptom is the chronic urticaria. I couldn't sleep through the night because of itchiness. I was on Zyrtec for 9 years but weaned off in 2014 because I was building up a tolerance & could see that I needed more and more to get a good effect. I started getting allergy shots while getting 2 shots of Xolair every month in 2017. This treatment kept the symptoms at bay but, every month, a few days before my shot of Xolair, my itchiness would ramp up. The allergy immuotherapy was fine...that is when you get injections of tiny particles of what you are allergic to, to help your body to not react to them. The immunotherapy allergy shots were helping a little...but only with itchy eyes and nose...not with the itchiness all over my body.
in 2020 my family moved to S Korea and I had to stop the immunotherapy allergy shots due to something about the doctors here follow a European protocol and not an American one, which I was on. So I just kept going with the Xolair. After just over a year on Xolair here, I quit due to poor patient service at the hospital. I asked around for other hospitals that provide Xolair, but I really wanted a cure...not to be tied to a doctor's office every month for shots. I really believed that my allergies were due to a leaky gut which was due to all the infections I had had. This was not verified by a doctor - I just do a lot of research.
After TONS of experimentation with LOTS of supplements and especially probiotics, I landed on this Akkermansia plus Gastrus Bio. I found Gastrus Bio frist and it helped a lot with the itching but I had break-through symptoms. Then I tried another brand of akkermansia, no longer sold on Amazon (not sure what happened to it), and that help quite a bit, but I couldn't buy it anymore. When I tried this one along with the Gastrus Bio - OMG!!! I barely have breakthrough symptoms! Next month I will try the pendulum Akkermansia by itself and see if I need the Gastrus Bio anymore, or if the combo is truly the cure. I've been suffering for just about 22 years and now I'm not on any meds. My IBS is better too, but the 1st week on this product, I was very gassy, but the gassiness has subsided.
The only drawback is the price, of $85, I didn't bother trying it. It's just too expenisve. I pray that the price comes down with more players on the market. I bought it at the current discounted price of $59.
4 stars instead of 5 bc of pricce.
I hope my story can help others."
Calmed my digestive system
"When I eat, regardless of what it is, my system seemed unpredictable...but taking this has made things settle down. I feel quite a lot better. My doctor was taking it and really liked it and suggested it to me. He said it also helped him lose some weight after taking it a while. That would be nice but my main purpose has been met and that would be an added bonus!"
