Hi I've been taking primal defense for about 9 days now. I have only been taking one first thing in the morning. I've had 2 days were I had a lot of cramping and couldn't go to the bathroom. Should I start taking one at night now too? Do you think it's the PD that caused my cramps? Does it have to be taken on an empty stomach at night too or would it be ok a couple of hours after a meal? Thank you so much.

Hi DianeMarie,
I have used Primal Defense off and on to re-colonize my intestines with friendly bacteria. And, yes the cramping could be caused by PD in the re-establishment of the friendly flora. Whenever I have taken more than 1 a day, it seem that my stools turned darker and I find I get slightly constipated.

I really don't know why-- it may be the extra Iron or the Soil Organisms. I had to increase my dose of psyllium and at times eat some prunes to have a normal BM.
But, I must say I believe it helped the friendly bacteria in my intestines.

I don't have Crohn's like Jordan Rubin the founder of Garden Of Life, Inc products. What I wanted the product to do was re-establish the friendly bacteria after taking a round of antibiotics.

I have never taken more than 2 daily. As you know the bottle says the maintenance dose for is 3 per day for life and you can take 6 to 12 daily.
I have read alot of glowing testimonies and am reading Jordan Rubin's book "Patient Heal Thyself".
All this glowing stuff is put out by the Manufacturer. I get a bit skeptical about testimonies anyway that are published by the maker.
I would really like to find an objective study of the use of Primal Defense as a probiotic???

I never got the flu like symptom reaction like yeast die-off with PD that I have gotten with using Nystatin or Diflucan but I never have taken many PD caplets at one time either.

I eat Stonyfield Farm yogurt 3 times daily and it contains 4 additional live active cultures. One being Lactobacillus reuteri that is very good and is only contained in 2 products in the USA. All of StonyField's products and Nature's Way Primadophilus- Reuteri. Since I take both of these daily, I probably have a pretty good digestive tract.
If you are interested in L.reuteri click on this site:

http://www.reuteri.com

I certainly didn't mean to confuse you because I think PD works. But if you use it like they want you to It is sorta costly but all of their products are.

I certainly wish you well---Harry