Customer Reviews

Sedona Labs Iflora Multi-Probiotic Formula, Capsules, 60-Count

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I've had acid reflux over two periods in my life: early twenties and late thirties. First time went away on its own after 3 miserable years. Came back more than a decade later, a year and a half ago. Went from tolerating quite spicy Indian, Mexican, Thai with no problems to being unable to eat a tomato or a slice of pizza or some chocolate without 4-5 hours of really bad acid. Turned to Zantac, 150mg extra strength because anything less was ineffective. Ended up taking Zantac 4 out of 7 days a week on average for almost a year, even though I was avoiding any triggers. I was miserable and I was unable to fix the problem, only cover the symptoms. That's the background story.

Fast-forward. Friend recommended probiotics. I tried i-Flora. Take it together with a bunch of other supplements, just added 1 i-Flora a day. Two days into the treatment the acid went away, permanently.

It's now been more than a month, and my digestive health has never been this good. The acid is a long forgotten memory. I can eat spicy food again. I've had Thai, Mexican, Indian, pizza. I even had some fried food (rare treat, used to cause a lot of acid). Nothing, not a single mild annoyance. The occasional gas and cramps: gone. Habits are now as regular as clockwork. Sorry to be graphic, but this is digestive health so might as well: stool is consistent, regular, healthy and near odorless. My whole digestive system has NEVER been this healthy.

Pros:
- Started working in 48 hrs
- Chronic and very bad acid reflux GONE COMPLETELY
- Occasional gas and cramps, gone
- Stomach, bowel working better than ever
- Can eat spicy food again, without any problems
- Can eat heavy or rich food, no problems

Cons: NONE

I haven't written too many reviews, but I had to write this one. It really did make a huge difference in my life. Any doctor should be ashamed for not suggesting probiotics to solve the cause instead of pharmaceuticals to cover-up symptoms. I'm so glad my friend recommended probiotics and this brand did the trick.

As far as this specific probiotic goes, it seems pretty good. It has 16 active cultures and includes a little fructooligosaccharide - a type of fiber found in some vegetables. Fiber is by definition stuff we cannot digest, but bacteria can. So it's like fertilizer for the probiotics you're taking.

I think that any decent probiotic supplement or fermented food with live cultures is a good thing to make part of your diet. Tons of research is demonstrating that a lot of auto-immune disorders can be caused simply by sterilizing the intestines followed by introducing various bad bacteria cultures. The bad bacteria cultures digest components of our food and have nasty byproducts/waste. In the absence of "good" bacteria cultures in the intestines, this waste from bad bacteria cultures cause inflammation. The inflammation in time damages the villi lining of the intestines, making it more permeable - ie it allows more partially digested food and bacterial waste into the bloodstream. When whole proteins start getting into the blood stream, the immune system may think it's an infection, and trains to remove protein. What else is like protein? Lots of organs, joints, and tissue. So in some circumstances the body will fallaciously attack itself. This is what an auto-immune disorder is.

The medical term for the effect of bad bacteria in the gut is "increased intestinal permeability", but often is refereed to as "leaky gut".

This isn't quack science or snake oil. You can tell if it's working because your feces should start becoming like the ice cream out of an old school ice cream dispenser. You shouldn't ever be bloated, and probably will see less body wide inflammation. You can go to websites like sciencedaily or read through the medical literature at pubmed, JAMA, etc and see some pretty compelling studies. On several occasions scientists have made lean rats obese simply by sterilizing the lean rat's intestines, and then transplanting bad bacteria from an obese rat to the lean rat. It causes the lean rat to start overeating. Perhaps the obesity epidemic is simply an auto-immune disorder of the hypothalamus. Studies have shown that inflamed hypothalamus does not respond well to leptin - the hormone that reduces hunger. The more body fat you have, the more leptin the fat produces. But if your hypothalamus doesn't get the message, the brain thinks it's starving.

What do bad bacteria love? Sugar & flour. What was over-prescribed in the late 20th century? Antibiotics. If you combine anti-biotics with sugar/flour heavy diet, you are essentially reproducing the steps of the study on making lean rats obese. You are sterilizing the intestines, which remove both good & bad bacteria, and then you provide an environment that favors bad.

And it's not just obesity. All sorts of other autoimmune disorders have been caused in labs through bad bacteria like MS and arthritis. Maybe heart disease is simply the body attacking it's own arteries, and like a fire truck putting out a fire cholesterol is at the crime scene and blamed (cholesterol is used to heal stuff in the body, it's not a toxin). That would certainly explain why the medical literature shows no correlation between cholesterol & the incidence of heart disease.

Now the good bacteria not only competes and crowds out the bad, it also assists us in digesting stuff we normally can't. It makes anti-inflammatory short chain fatty acids out of some fiber and carbohydrates.

But outside of my rant, I would recommend:
1. Reduce sugar and non-fermented grain consumption. Bad bacteria loves this.
2. Increase consumption of vegetables and nuts. Fermented whole grains are fine, but tedious. This feeds the probiotics in these pills. Otherwise they won't work very well.

I flora was once called flora source from Sedona Labs. This product contains Acidophillus and 15 other "friendly" bacteria that humans need for proper digestive function. For the last few years, I have developed food allergies to dairy and even rice. My stomach was constantly bloated and cramped. Iflora has helped me to stop the bloating and cramps. The bacteria even help with some of my lactose intolerance because they produce lactase, an enzyme that helps break down lactose. I rate this product with 5 stars.

I agree with all the reviews written here to date (6-27-2009) I had tried several other probiotics (Pearls/Align/etc) but NOTHING works like this -i-FLORA has reduced my bloating to next to nothing, and has calmed my entire digestive system. If you've had enough of other products not working, then this is the one for you. I hope at some point that Amazon will put it on their Subscribe and Save program.

Just to let you folks know, based on my experiences with iFlora, they are very effective. Perhaps even too effective. I actually have a type of diet that promotes a pretty good digestive "flora", so when I introduced iFlora, I felt I might have had too much of a good thing. I think my digestive system might have become over-stimulated with too much of the same type of bacteria. This resulted in excessive gas and bowel activity. I was taking the recommended dose of 2 capsules per day, which I took for one week, until the side-effects got too much for me to handle. I strongly suggest to ease into the dosage... 1 capsule every 2 days, so you can make sure you don't over react to iFlora.

For my money, Iflora Multi Probiotic 60 Capsules is THE probiotic supplement to buy.

I have been disabled with a very debilitating chronic illness and carry a tremendous load of health issues as a result. To give you an idea of what I am dealing with ~ I had Lyme Disease go undiagnosed and therefore untreated for over 25 years. When the blood work came back highly positive for Borrelia burgdorferii, I was immediately put on antibiotics. I continued antibiotic treatment for a solid 2 years with the hope of curing the Lyme infection. The antibiotics did not cure me of the Lyme infection. I then underwent 3 months of Hydrogen Peroxide intravenous treatments. I only worsened. All the antibiotics caused candidiasis. I also suffered with IBS, GERD, hiatal hernia, celiac disease, food allergies, as well as other complications and co-infections of the Lyme Disease. I was/am a mess.

I became an expert on probiotics. I think in 10 years I have tried them all (that is those probiotics which meet my dietary requirements.) I am a vegan with dairy and wheat allergies and some other food intolerances. I have to read labels carefully and went through every compatible probiotic in my health food store's cooler and on their supplement shelf. Some were great, some not. All were expensive.

I then started shopping for probiotics at Amazon hoping to find less expensive supplements there. Amazon does have quite a few and at better prices than the health food pill emporiums but my concern was the shipping. Many probiotics require refrigeration and Amazon does not cool-pack.

Thank goodness a dear friend told me about Iflora Multi Probiotic 60 Capsules. It was a Godsend. At the time it could only be purchased directly from Sedona Labs but much to my delight it became available at Amazon.

The pros:
~It does not require refrigeration
~Vegetarian capsules
~Does not contain dairy, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish,tree nuts, wheat/gluten, peanuts or soybeans
~16 Strains/16 billion cells
~Survives stomach acid
~Excellent price
~A very nice company in Arizona

The cons:
~NONE

Iflora Multi Probiotic 60 Capsules really does help maintain digestive and immune health. When I am off balance I take 4 daily. When I am back on tract, one daily is adequate. It also helps my urinary tract and clears up occasional skin problems.

Iflora Multi Probiotic 60 Capsules is my first line of defense for healthy intestinal flora. I highly recommend it!

I have been using this product for 6 months now and all my abdominal bloating has gone away. I no longer get yeast infections and I finally am able to have daily bowel movements. Great product. Thanks Iflora

I have been been taking aciphex for gerd and hiatal hernia for over 6 years. My heartburn symptoms were gone with aciphex and did not think much about it. Until this year when 3 small polyps were found during a routine colonoscopy. Five years ago, none found and that got me curious. Also I have been plagued with atopic dermatitis around my neck and shoulder for the same period. I tried everything but none worked. Did not want to use any steroids such as prescription creams.

Fast forward. After finding 3 polyps I started to read up on aciphex and all the related medicines like all the purple pills out there including histamine blockers like famotidine. This convinced me that I need to stop aciphex immediately. Google yourself. Some scary side effects like increased incidence of polyps, vitamin b deficiency due to malabsorption from aciphex, etc, etc. Lack of vitamin b may cause atoptic dermatitis. Bingo the lightbulb went on. I started to supplement with vitamin b's and within couple of days, the itchiness went totally away (now taking vitamin bs, vitamin d and no aciphex at this point). Still some problems around the hair line but much better.

The only problem of stopping aciphex though was my gerd symtoms returned in a big time. So, I tried several things such as apple cider, papaya extract, and when could not stand it, gaviscon. Then, I read about probiotics.

I've been on iflora for 1 week now and after 5 days, my gerd symptoms are vastly improved. I don't notice it much anymore. I take 1 iflora a day. I did experience "die-off" I think of bad bacteria the first 5 days - just gastro problems and nothing else. I still drink wine, green tea and coffee daily and no problems now with gerd. So for now I take vitamin D, iflora, vitamin B complex, calcium/magnesium. I'm never going back to aciphex or any other purple pills.

I was having alot of problems with my intestines because i eat very little fiber. But after a couple weeks of taking this I am feeling much better and much more regular. I like the fact that it has 16 strains and it not just for your intestines but this is also good for your lungs inner ears and sinuses so its a cold fighter and preventer.

I'm pretty sure when I bought this product the description said it was gluten free - seems to have been fixed. However, it is listed on several other sites as being gluten free. I just spoke to a representitive from Sedona Labs and was told it is not gluten free. Just thought I'd post so others don't make the same mistake. Glad it works for some people.