Dr. Chheda – Which probiotic do I recommend? On a general basis, almost any probiotic is fine. What I do recommend is switching out the probiotic every month, so you get a different bacteria every month in your system. Your gut needs all the bacteria in order to function properly.

Now there are some probiotics that work a little bit better for certain conditions. So for those conditions, then I would recommend certain probiotics. For instance, an infant does really well with Lactobacillus Reuteri – Lactobacillus Reuteri, R-E-U-T-E-R-I. And there are several manufacturers that make them.

But you do also want to make sure that there are different probiotics going into the gut, and you can get a variety of probiotics by eating fermented foods like yogurt or kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi. All the fermentation actually gives you lots of different kinds of probiotic, and that’s what you want in the gut to maintain a healthy immune system.