Why SCD Yogurt is so important

1. The SCD™ corrects the balance of bacteria types in the gut by eliminating the food supply of undesirable types and starves them out. Introducing SCD yogurt aids this process as it repopulates the gut with beneficial bacteria, which further displaces the harmful bacterial.
2. SCD yogurt is also very nutritious and contains proteins vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fats, and much more!
3. As the yogurt bacterial culture breaks down the lactose into simpler forms, we will absorb the simpler carbohydrate molecules instead of their feeding overgrowth of bacteria in the lower intestine.
4. It is often claimed that we can get more good bacteria from taking commercial probiotics. This is not the case and yogurt is a very low cost source of probiotics. 24-hr SCD yogurt has a concentration of 3 billion cfu/ml, which means that in just a cup of yogurt (236ml) you'll get 708 Billion beneficial bacteria . That's about 50 times more than that claimed for a typical 15 billion capsule.
5. 24-hr yogurt also has a higher probiotic count than commercial yogurt because it is fermented longer.
6. The bacteria in yogurt are fresh and in the environment in which they grew,  unlike the bacteria in a capsule, which will be dormant.
7. Because the cultures produce lactic acid from the lactose in the milk, many people who are lactose intolerant are able to tolerate SCD yogurt.

Introducing yogurt to your diet:

While many find huge improvement in their condition when they start taking the yogurt, others may have problems at first. After the starter diet has been completed the yogurt can be tried by introducing it very slowly. Try a teaspoon the first day and watch for any reaction; if all is well, try two the second day, gradually increasing it each day. If you have a reaction then there may not have been enough healing and it may be best to leave it for now and try again later. You could try using goats milk, 24-hr SCD yogurt, which has met with wonderful success with autistic children and is the recommended yogurt for them. Goats milk is more delicate than cows milk and has a different type of casein. Therefore people sensitive to cows milk case might not be sensitive to goats milk casein.

If despite trying 24-hr SCD goats milk yogurt you are still sensitive to it, then it should be excluded from your diet until more healing has occurred. Try it again after a month or two of being on the SCD.

Before starting the SCD many people believed that they couldn't tolerate yogurt, but after healing through the diet find the 24-hr SCD yogurt helps them greatly.

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