Richard, In the Q&A you mentioned rotating various probiotic brands throughout the day for the sake of biodiversity and perhaps absorption? Would you be up for sharing an example of what this could look like for a child and an adult in a typical day? How many different brands/strains, which ones do you tend to like generally and when during the day? Are you breaking apart the daily dose and spreading it out throughout the day, Or cumulatively in a day are folx getting several times more than they would normally get if they just took the one brand? I realize that you might choose different brands/strains for different reasons; so I hope Ive given enough info to help you answer this question. I'm really just wanting to understand more generally how this can look. I hope this question is clear enough! Thank you for your awesome teaching. You are a treasure!

Rich said: Thanks for the question! No not to rotate during the day! That would be too complicated though would be fine if someone wants to. (I wouldn't! Ha.) But yesI do recommend rotating brands and strains weekly, or every few weeks, or at the very least every few months. There is no magic number for it - mainly b/c our science on this is so preliminary. There may be an ideal - it probably varies person to person - but we don't know it yet. I should say not everyone agrees with me on this - I base this on research that shows that microbiome biodiversity is more significant for health outcomes than the total bacterial count. I usually give clients 3, 4 or 5 different brands to rotate through. It can even be as they finish one bottle, to replace with another. Two important points: 1) if someone reports a clear therapeutic effect that they lose when they go off a particular brand, I tell them to stay on it. That is the exception in my clinical experience. 2) when on antibiotics I recommend using more than one probiotic at once or maybe day by day rotations.