Kelsey Marksteiner: Yeah, it is just a search box. Obviously if you’re searching super-specific and it just simply has not been researched in combination with what strains of probiotics are useful for it, then it’s not going to show anything. Typically I’m searching it for things that I know have been studied in terms of what probiotics are useful and I just don’t remember what they are or I want dosage information, that kind of thing. If you plug in “anxiety,” for example, you will find stuff there. Yeah, it doesn’t have everything, so if you were searching for something super-specific, it just may not have really been studied all that much yet, and so that’s why you’re not finding it there.
I think it’s a great resource and I’m happy to pay that fee to have access to that, but he can’t obviously have everything on there just because it hasn’t been studied. I would suggest searching for more general terms maybe. That might be the first thing to be able to find more information and see if you can get some helpful stuff from it. I think it’s great, and I generally tend to try to use specific strains that have been shown to be helpful for specific diseases rather than just giving a general probiotic or doing a general probiotic in combination with a specific strain that’s been shown to be useful for that.
Hopefully that helps. If you’re working with a specific population and you’re just not finding information on probiotics for that type of person and the kinds of diseases that they have, it may not be that great of a resource for you, so it sort of depends on who you’re working with, as well.