Probiotic Bacillus Laterosporus (BOD Strain) 60 Capsules

I feel so hopeful for finding a probiotic to address my lingering and quite debilitating facial skin condition. I kept trying topicals that address fungaland yeast problems to no avail. I tried taking natural anti microbials; olive leaf extract, grapefruit seed extract, pau d'arco, neem, an Ayurvdic formula specific for skin. I avoided dairy, ate no sugar, drank a lot of water but daily, my skin would get worse. Topically, I tried Derma e products,colloidal silver, soaps with sulfur or zinc...then days I rinsed my face with just water and put nothing on it, and still, new bumps kept appearing. I wanted to cry out of frustration...So, next I started changing my oral probiotics, there was nothing that stopped new outbreaks. I looked like I had the chicken pox on my face...little red painful and often itchy bumps that almost burned, with fluid inside would keep erupting in new places daily....sometimes within hours of eating normal foods. I was taking a digestive enzyme. I stopped for awhile but it didn't matter. Still my skinproblem persisted... This was beyond frustrating and this all began after I was given steroids for a totally different condition..I decided to be persistent until I found a solution.One morning a few weeks ago, I thought to google "dermatitis and probiotics" and information started appearing about bacillus laterosporus.....I read the research (of which there isn't much available)...decided I'd stop everything I was taking and doing and just buy this one formula.Oh I also started taking Candex before bed and first thing in the morning a few weeks ago, but still my skin problem persisted. I decided to keeptaking that formula because I felt it couldn't hurt, although I can't be 100% sure this is candida because the only evidence of it would be skinrelated.My bottle of Latero Flora arrived early this week. I took two pills the following morning....so right now, it's been 5 full days that this one and onlystrain of probiotic has been in my system...It's not enough time to have totally re-populated my gut, but it was certainly enough time for me to beable to share that I haven't had one new break out in 4 days...and some of the inflamed bumps on my skin have started to calm down. I knowit will take time before everything fades.I'm not sure if I was missing this particular bacillus strain or was I reacting to some other good bacteria found in the many other probiotics Ikept rotating. I just stopped all but this formula...My gut isn't perfect. I probably could be dealing with candida/yeast overgrowth....but my skin is improving and that's huge. Just to be able to wakeup every morning and not see new red bumps is making me so grateful. Thanks to so many people here who wrote detailed reviews and helped me choose something that I hoped would help my skin. This is an awesome and much unknown product. I wish dermatologistswould know to recommend this to their patients and not give them steroids first. Steroids messed up my gut and likely this led to my skin problemin the first place.

After reading several medical research published articles about the specific bacteria found in this supplement including one my own specialist co-authored, I decided to give this product a try. I am SO glad I did! My specialist deals with autoimmune diseases especially the disorder I have. So I was excited to learn that this probiotic has been shown to help treat the gut imbalances at the root of mine and most all autoimmune disorders. I've been taking this probiotic for 2 months now while I also stopped taking the harsh medication developed to treat only the symptoms of my disease with my doctor's knowledge and permission. Now, autoimmune disease can be cyclical in that they can go into remission and then flair up later. I may well be in a remission because my symptoms have greatly improved but to also be off all the medication that was designed to treat my symptoms leads me to assume something good is going on since I started taking these daily. This bacteria is also supposed to treat yeast overgrowth, another issue I have as well and so far, the symptoms from this have decreased measurably. I will continue taking this wonderful supplement and I'll update here once I've been on it longer or if the benefits I've gained from daily intake stop. Dont stop taking any of your medications to try this out WITHOUT the full knowledge of your physician before hand. I'M NOT A DOCTOR so I can only relay the personal benefits this wonderful probiotic has offered me. I'm grateful for the 2 months of feeling so much better that may be directly due to this probiotic.

I've tried so many probiotics and in the past used to always get the refrigerated live versions 100 cfu counts which were very expensive and difficult to transport as the health foods store was an hour away from home so I had to always bring ice packs in a cooler when I would buy them. I noticed a positive difference with those probiotics but my candida still raged including my horrible 8 month fungal rash all over my skin from being on antibiotics for 2 months during the winter for bouts of reoccurring pneumonia and bronchitis. I have always heard of SBO (soil based organisms) as an alternative to most refrigerated probiotics but I've heard so much controversy over whether they actually make you worse or not. Apparently they produce biofilms so it can make people with lymes disease actually worse off. I've heard different things from people with candida. So I stayed away from SBOs until finally I decided to try them out when my rash was just driving me crazy. I started taking b. coagulans and noticed a very positive difference almost immediately and my rash finally went away but after about 2 months it came back though not as bad as before. Instead of the rash being all over my body it stayed around my bra line and certain areas of my back. I figured the candida was used to that probiotic by that point. So I researched other SBOs and found Latero-Flora though I saw it on global healing center. I started taking that along with the B. Coagulans and the rash again went away. After about a month though, the rash came back. I tried only taking the Latero Flora by GHC and the rash still persisted. I decided I'd try out this version of Latero Flora instead of the one by GHC and the rash went away. Its been about 2 months and the rash still hasn't come back. So I'd rate this version better than GHC's version and I'd rate it better than B. Coagulans for an SBO. However, thats just my body and my candida infection. Everyone is different and even if someone else has candida, it could be a different strain (s) than my own or at a different stage so I don't want to veer anyone away from purchasing the other products I tried because they were all very highly rated as well. I hope this product or one of the others can give someone else relief.