Can I take probiotics (acidophilus and other friendly bacterium) with Pure-le Natural Oregano products or do I have to be concerned as I am with antibiotics?
Feel free to take probiotics with any Pure-le Natural product including our Medicinal Spice Oils and Oreganos. In fact we encourage people to take probiotics to increase their overall health no matter what supplements they are using. Pharmaceutical antibiotics are designed to kill bacteria indiscriminately. They make no differentiation between friendly (probiotics) or harmful (pathogenic) bacteria. Some are capable of destroying all the good bacteria in your digestive tract in as little as one treatment. Oregano is a discriminant antibiotic. Because it is a food and our ancestors have been eating it for thousands of years, our bodies have adapted to the intake of oregano. Because of this our bodies are able to take oregano regularly without it causing difficulties. In fact clinical trials have shown that probiotic bacteria can become resistant to “spice antibiotics”. This resistance allows these natural antibiotics to have a profound effect against pathogenic (harmful) bacteria while h
