High Dose Probiotics

For two years I was taking around 5 billion or, at most, 10 billion grams of multi strain probiotics per day. It made no difference t my health at all, neither did Primal Defense. Finally ouut of desperation i started taking a 500 billion gr megadose of probiotics per day. First using Natren's Healthy Trinity (but it worked out very expensive to take 500 bill of that per day) and then moving on to Custom Probiotics powder and capsules. Within a day of this regime, I started to feel AMAZING. My skin is clear and my elimination is great and I have energy. One day I ate candy and usually that would make me feel awful and give me a vaginal yeast infection, but wtih the megadose of daily probiotics, I didn't notice any ill feeling at all.

So my question is: is it healthy to take such a high dose of probiotics?
I've been making homemade 24 hour probiotic (goat milk) yogurt for the better part of 7 years. I use natren, culturelle, primadophilus, metagenics bifido and acidophilus, bio K+, and other probios as starters. By some accounts, 24 hour yogurt has on the order of 10 trillion bacteria per quart. I've had as much as 3 quarts daily + 4 scoops of custom probiotics.

Early on, I had to be very careful with too many probiotics because it killed off too much candida, and candida can release methyl mercury during dieoff. Once I adapted though the probios seems to have done nothing put positive things.

Some folks here claim fresh cultured veggies have nearly (if no totally) cured them. I'm also now culturing my own veggies, but the process is going more slowly than i would like.

So, the point is, i've been taking MEGA-doses of probios this entire decade and it's helped me tremendously. I'm treating lyme, so these probios are helping with a pretty difficult problem.
Cool! Thanks for replying. Now, I'm severely lactose intolerant (both parents are pure West African and something like 75% and up of West Africans are lactose intolerant). I also think I am casein intolerant - and I cannot tolerate even the purest whey protein. So, my question is, would it be a waste of time and money for me to attempt making my own yogurt and consuming that? The probiotics I currently take are all non-dairy. Even as a baby I could not take cow;s milk.
I have similar problems. I cannot even touch pasteurized cow milk. However, i can handle raw "Organic Pastures" cow milk from CA just fine. Most of us with dairy intolerances are actually sensitive to heated (and dangerously altered) casein, with cow casein seemingly worse than either goat or sheep. Goat is largely considered the safest.

Moreover, if you culture the milk long enough, the bacteria will partially digest the heat-damaged protein, making it safer.

Thus, the best solution here if you want lots of bacteria is to make your own goat milk yogurt and cutlure it for a long time - 24 - 30 hours.

I use a natren roaster as a water bath and it makes fabulous yogurt!

I bet you wouldn't have a problem with that. I would certainly try it and see.

One thing to keep in mind... grain fed animals are less healthy than pastured animals, and the milk itself is altered depending on feed, so I'd recommend seeking out pastured milk if possible.

You'll find a lot about this issue if you search http://www.mercola.com.

If you live in CA you might want to try RAW Organic Pastures milk. The other brand available in CA is highly grain fed, and not recommended.

Don't forget to seek out cultured veggies that have NOT been pasteurized. These appear to have even more benefits than yogurt.

... not a natren roaster
Great! I'm going to try this! I've been trying to get hold of some pasture-fed cows or goat milk at my local Green MArket. I live in New York.
if you're anywhere near amish country, they have the BEST dairy i've ever had. i'll be in PA next week and I'm looking forward to tracking some down!
You can most likely not tolerate any kind of milkproucts whatever you do. Some people just are bor like that.
Instead: you can make fantastic youghurt wih coconutmilk!
And since you have WestAfrican parents: make your granny teach you how to make fermented porridge or injera or whatever she knows how to. (Ogi?)
How do you think these people survived before antibiotics with very dirty water? Answer: lactobacillus plantarum