Dr. Amy Nett: In general, Chris and I tend to be minimalists when it comes to supplements. I love Prescript-Assist when I’m doing treatment, especially if it’s an antimicrobial protocol, if I’m using antibiotics for SIBO or, otherwise, herbal microbials. Prescript-Assist is awesome. I will often use it in combination with MegaSporeBiotic. Depending on what I’m treating, I might also be using Lactobacillus rhamnosus or Saccharomyces boulardii. Prescript-Assist is a key probiotic that we use, and I also use it when I’m doing a rebuilding-the-gut protocol. Again, we’ll go over this in more detail, but when we treat the gut, we do an antimicrobial protocol. After we feel like we’ve done enough in terms of killing off the bad bacteria, the dysbiosis, the SIBO, whatever it may be, then we do a rebuilding-your-gut protocol. There we continue with pretty intensive probiotics and prebiotics, and we maybe do that for two to three months to help just restore the microbiome.
After that point, if somebody is following a Paleo diet, they’re great about getting their prebiotics, they’re eating fermented foods, generally what I recommend is that maybe people keep one or two different probiotics around their house and if there are days that they’re not eating fermented foods or if they’re starting to get sick or maybe they feel like they caught a food-poisoning bug kind of thing, that’s the time I would suggest taking probiotics.
Then if they’ve been on Prescript-Assist for a year or so, I might suggest they mix it up, and they could switch to something like Primal Defense Ultra, but probably rotating probiotics over the years, so talking big-picture, over-the-years rotating probiotics. But, yes, Prescript-Assist is something I use during antimicrobial treatment and also during rebuilding the gut, and then for long-term maintenance, eventually you want to rotate that.