Comment by laura on February 17, 2012 at 1:44pm

yes i have,i started taking bifido bacterium infantis and i got regrowth....around 50%. i read a book that explains if you have a leaky gut then food particles leak into the blood stream and the immune system goes on high alert to destroy the invaders in the blood and then gets so exhausted and confused from constant invaders that it then attacks ourselfs(in our case hair) so the probiotics serve by lining our gut to stop this problem......hope she gets all her hair back soon xx

Comment by Dean on February 17, 2012 at 2:04pm

Wow, I'm looking for another brand to use. Was using Intestiflora and recently started using a brand by Nature's Bounty that was a much larger dose and consisted of 10 different strains. Can you tell me what brand and product you use? Also, how much did you take? I'm thinking I'll give her different brands at different times of the day for kind of a shotgun effect.

By the way, I was told to try it by a nutritionist who told me that basically for lack of any real knowledge of what to do, that probiotics help the gut where most of the immune system is located. That was his only real insight and it seemed to work. Since then, I've visited several other nutritionists and followed their recommendations but nothing else seemed to work though the only thing we ever really used long enough to know for sure was iodine supplements. I also tried that laserbrush thing but it didn't seem to work. It might have done something but it requires 3x/week treatments for 15 minutes and it's hard to be consistent enough to make a more or less scientific judgment.

Comment by Dean on February 17, 2012 at 2:05pm

Oh, and what book did you read?

Comment by laura on February 18, 2012 at 4:23pm

im in the uk so i dont know if you will have the same brands where you are it was called "probiotic acidophilus" and its made by holland and barret. the book i read was"good gut bugs" by kathryn marsden and i got than from amazon.im currently looking into vitamin b12 defficiency also as im pretty sure iv had leaky gut syndrome from bad gut flora and this stops absorbtion of vitamins x

Comment by laura on February 18, 2012 at 4:31pm

oh i forgot to mention the probiotics im using are the ones with 2 billion active cultures as they come in different amounts

Comment by Dean on February 20, 2012 at 9:12am

Excellent information, thank you. Leaky gut syndrome is something else I can research. I'll let you know how my current experiments go.

Comment by laura on February 20, 2012 at 2:34pm

im reading at the moment"could it be b12" from amazon. it can be like running in circles trying to figure alopecia out but im glad to meet another who wont take it lying down

Comment by Dean on February 20, 2012 at 2:59pm

Same here, let's keep in touch on anything that seems to be working. Have a great day.

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