Does anyone have an alternative that you’d recommend to BioK+ fermented rice/soy drinks?
The longer context here is I have had IBS-D for a decade and lifestyle changes, diet, and all of the usual suspects have gotten it to a manageable place. The key to not pooping my pants 5x a day is a mix of limiting alcohol and fried fatty foods, lots more fiber and greens, cutting out coffee and switching to matcha and fermented pu’erh, other food choices like kimchi, lifting and walking, etc. But the one thing I have been intermittently taking that makes a huge difference is the BioK+ probiotic drinks (they’re sold at most specialty health stores)
They make me regular and feel so good, yet I am at a loss as to how to afford this insane price tag moving forward. It’s $34 for a box of 6 and I try to take it every other day. I’ve tried probably 5-6 other brands of probiotics all in pill-form and never seen an impact.
Am I just missing something obvious, do I need to give a new pill brand a chance, or are they “just as good” probiotic drink options that I’m unaware of?
Please help me! I feel like I have done soooo much lifestyle work and this is the last piece and I can’t figure it out. The probiotic marketing and internet info is overwhelming, the number of options are infinite, and I don’t have the money to try a dozen things.