I know 2 humans who have had the same terrible reaction to Activia--extensive diarrhea for 48 hours . activia advertise that it is a new and powerful form of yogurt but it is just too much for some living things' intestinal systems. my friends ended up on gatorade and pedialyte for 4 days trying to get back to normal.
meanwhile my dog gets plain 'greek style' (no sugar) yogurt 1x a day and does fine.
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I know 2 humans who have had the same terrible reaction to Activia--extensive diarrhea for 48 hours . activia advertise that it is a new and powerful form of yogurt but it is just too much for some living things' intestinal systems. my friends ended up on gatorade and pedialyte for 4 days trying to get back to normal.
Wow. This is not a common reaction, I'm going to guess, because of virtually no web info about it..... even in blogs.
There is a lawsuit against Dannon for the advertising hype around their "bifidus regularis" (which always seemed pretty funny: "We invented this new bacteria and named it with a cool name; here, eat it"). But nothing else that I know about.
Big point: All good yogurt that isn't heat-treated after culturing (that is, almost all of the non-supermarket yogurts and many of the smaller companies actually in the supermarket case) has live cultures that were not invented or renamed by Dannon.
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I didn't get excited over Dannon's web site info either. It seems like a jumping-on-the-probiotics-bandwagon marketing thing, including actually naming and trademarking one strain.
I buy yogurt that costs about half as much and that has ten different strains.
As Mike said, which strains are best for which systems just is not nailed down yet, and to bet the farm on one trademarked strain is probably not the best strategy for dogs or humans.
From what I have read (including a good book that Mike recommended called The Probiotics Revolution), the best strategy with the present state of research is probably to get a product with as many strains as possible and probably to vary your choices among the ones with many strains. At least, that's what I do.
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