General

The bacterial strain inside GanedenBC³⁰, Bacillus coagulans, which was originally isolated as a Lactobacillus, enjoys a safe history of use in products of over 50 years. This is much longer than some of the most common species commonly sold at health food stores or used in the production of cultured dairy products, including Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. The specific strain inside GanedenBC³⁰ is Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086.

Important safety features of GanedenBC³⁰:

• Used by Ganeden Biotech:
  • Over 5 years in oral administration
  • Safely used in over 4 million boxes of Ganeden Products with not one reported adverse reaction
    
• Easily controlled by all common antibiotics
• Naturally flushed out of the body
  

No references have been found implicating Bacillus coagulans as a primary causative organism of any diseases.

Easy Eradication

B. coagulans does not produce the extra-cellular substances that contribute to epithelial adhesion. Depending on the peristaltic rate of each individual, the number of cells will decline to virtually zero over a five day period. The rate of this decline is heavily weighted on the first two days. For this reason, in order to maintain the benefit of the bacteria in its various internal applications – additional cells (in the form of an additional caplet), must be ingested every 24-36 hours in order to augment the number of cells that remain in the brush-border area.

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