Bifidus Actiregularis, Bifidus Regularis, Bifidus Digestivum, Bifidobacterium Lactis and variants

Bifidus Actiregularis, Bifidus Regularis, Bifidus Digestivum, Bifidobacterium Lactis and its variants are marketing names generated by Danone (known in the United States of America as Dannon) for one of the specific bacteria it uses in its “Activia” range of yoghurt products.

According to a reply received from Dannon by the Writerious blog, Bifidus Regularis (and therefore presumably all the variations of Bifidus…) is a proprietary strain of Bifidobacterium.

The source of “Bifidus” is from the intestinal bacterium Bifidobacterium animalis, a kind of bacteria found in the large intestines of most mammals, including humans. “Actiregularis” is an invented word, the first half of which which emphasises the active nature of the bacteria. In common with with Bifidus Regularis, the “regularis” part emphasises being “regular” and the “is” at the end suggests a scientific derivation. The bacteria is known as Bifidus Actiregularis in UK marketing materials and Bifidus Regularis in marketing materials from the USA.

Bifidus Actiregularis used to be called Bifidus Digestivum in UK marketing materials. “Digestivum” is an invented word which uses “digestive” as a root to suggest beneficial effects on digestion, combined with the latinate ending “um” to suggest a scientific derivation.

It is known as Bifidobacterium Lactis in Canadian marketing materials, where Lactis uses the Latin root for milk (“lac” / “lact-“) and “is” to suggest a scientific derivation.

It is known as “Digestivum Essensis” in German and Austrian marketing materials. These are both invented words, the first emphasising digestion and the second emphasising the “essential” nature of the nutrition, using latinate endings to suggest a scientific derivation.

The name of the bacteria changes from country to country and over time, to reflect differences in marketing strategy and consumer behaviour. One suggestion for the change in the UK from Bifidus Digestivum from Bifidus Actiregularis is that Bifidus Digestivum was so ridiculed it become a liability – do a Google search for Bifidus Digestivum to see the results.

The scientifically correct name for the bacteria is “Bifidobacterium animalis DN 173 010”.

The BBC has recorded an excellent radio programme about gut bacteria, including a discussion of the fundamental uncertainty about the very specific advertised claims for probiotics.

Read more about probiotics, prebiotics, and intestinal flora, Danone’s marketing strategy and what’s in Activia, Danactive and Actimel using the More information menu on the right.

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  • As I understand Danone, they are claiming that you aren’t allowed to mention their products much less say that Activa is merely a live yougurt just like any other. At the same time they reserve the right to mislead the public, be economical with the truth, regarding what Activa actually is and to exaggerate / falsely claim what it does whencompared to any other live yoghurt. Typical money grubbing, litigious twats. Oh, and cAPS LOCK, people get worked up over fraudulent claims. Fleecing the gullible isn’t a new activity but that doesn’t make it alright.

    Posted by pv on 29th July 2008

  • Goo gracious some of you are fussbudgets. Like others I got here after googling the (obvious) silly made up name. I hink MOST marketing is cheap gloss. But I can’t get that worked up over it! All of you act like this is a new thing and terribly big deal. ‘Guinness is good for you’ might not be popular as AA meetings. For what it’s worth I did not buy the yogurt for health reasons, but when I noticed I was visiting the toilet more frequently it took a few days to discover why. The stuff does what it says – for me anyway. In the process of researching it I ran into you bunch of whining nannies. 😉

    Posted by cAPS LOCK on 28th July 2008

  • I have been eatting Activa for a week and a half now. I was having alot of headaches, loose bms that smell like crap and cramps. I didnt know their was a lawsuit out on the produce, untill I looked up to see what Bifidus Regulais meant. I wanted to know if thats what was making me feel this way. Now I see, and im sick as hell to know thats what it is. I will never in my life eat Dannon Activia again. Thanks but know Thanks!!!! Im sick as hell and going to bed now!!

    Posted by Meriel Caldwell on 26th July 2008

  • I had one Activia yogurt when on holiday in the UK, before my full english breakfast. In the afternoon i felt bloated, sluggish and generally unwell. I put it down to eating too much, but when i got back and bought a pack of Activia. Both mornings i have had Activia for breakfast, i have felt all this pain again! So i deduce that this isnt full english – its the damn yogurt. I really do feel unwell and am going back to my Yeo Valley organic live yogurt!!!!!

    Posted by AD on 27th June 2008

  • After consuming massive doses of antibiotics, both orally and intraveinously, and two colen sugeries, over the last two years, I was so very constipated all the time, it was awful. I had tried everything, water, fiber, citracile, flaxseed oil, stool softners, excersise, Murilax . Three weeks ago I added Activia and Kashi cereal to my diet. I go everyday now, what a relief. I do have some gas, a minor problem compaired to the severe constipation.

    Posted by Nana on 23rd June 2008

  • GASTRIC BYPASS patinets look out! I had gastric bytpass a year ago. Though I would try Activa – since I only eat things that are good for me. Well that was 2 hrs ago and I have gone to the bathroom (pain, cramps, bloating, odor,) probably the worse loose stools I have ever had…every 10 minutes. I had this problem 2 days ago…it finally hit me to check the package of the yogurt..nothing about a laxative effect…thank god for the internet! I think gastric patients are more sensitive….or it is just me! NEVER again!

    Posted by Anon on 21st June 2008

  • I hope you keep fighting to keep this site up and running. My amusement at the name changed to irritation when I saw the marketing variations. I’m alarmed that so many people may be having adverse effects. Finally, I’m furious that Dannon would try to shut down this site. The have no legal basis for doing so, but they are just trying to run over you with a steamroller. I am going to try Activia – very carefully! If it works, I will use a culture to make my own. This will be my bit of protest over unethical and inhuman abuses of corporate power.

    Posted by Millie on 20th June 2008

  • Two weeks after drinking Danactive I contracted horrible upper GI tract pain, gas, bloating, bombastic bowel movements and could barely walk after two more weeks, I had fever and chills. I got an appointment to see my GP who referred me to a Doctor who specialized in the colon after a CT scan I was told the I had contracted Diverticulitis in my colon. I had bought two of these ‘power shots’ of the Danactive with L. casei Imunitass. After having a colonoscopy I was told that I had an ulcer in my large intestine the size of a slice of bologna and if I didn’t stop drinking this stuff it could cause it to rupture and cause sepsis in my body. six grand for a CT scan and a couple of hundred dollars for meds to cure what was ‘supposed’ to make me healthier!

    Posted by Marc Butzin on 20th June 2008

  • I had my doubts about Activia, but after 3 days of eating it, i have had a BM everyday. Something is working…

    Posted by Annie on 14th June 2008

  • This seems objective and well balanced. Would you consider writing a paragraph in the Health Benefits section of the article on Bifidus animalis in Wikipedia? They are asking for more information and you could add something about that benfits and doubts about benefits. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifidobacterium_animalis)

    Posted by Janet V-S on 12th June 2008

  • Yeah, me too! I ate some of that Activa Bulemia stuff and, you guessed it I crapped a wad of who knows what! It smelled like an alien fart! Well I goes straight to the Doctor and had my rectal hemisphere surgically removed. Then I commenced to feelin’ better. Wake up Loosers, you been had, howbout you join the class action suit for numbnutz.

    Posted by Albelievium Anythingus on 11th June 2008

  • it is amazing to me that folks could blame activia for what appears to be everything under the sun…in this sue happy environment it is no small wonder that plaintiff attorneys are laughing all the way to the bank……I can’t begin to imagine that the person who ended up with a colostomy bag is seriously blaming the yogurt………..I couldn’t even read it all the way through………it’s like anything else…if it gives you a side effect…like broccoli can give you gas….do you now sue all the farmers who grow it????? Anyway…….some people just need to get a life…and a job

    Posted by dm on 8th June 2008

  • I have been eating Activia for three days now and for the last two days I have had several bouts of loose BM. In addition I have red spots all over my body and my inch iches severaly. I have done some other side effects research on this and it seems that I am not the only person that has had this reaction to yougurt. One lady ended up in the doctors office and had to take five different medications in order for the rash to go away!! Has this happened to anybody on this site?

    Posted by Ana Maria on 5th June 2008

  • Activa works fabulous. I have had such digestive problems from dieting and activia is just what I needed. I have one yogurt a day and every morning I go to the bathroom and feel great. I have no idea what you people are talking about but I think you may be eating too much of it or something else is doing it.

    Posted by julie on 2nd June 2008

  • As a rule I do not put things in my body that hav not gone through clinical trials. I brought a pack of four today. I WILL RETURN IT TO THE STORE. I am afraid that in a few years there will be a study conducted which will conclude that it is very bad for you. Thanks for posting your experiences.

    Posted by willie on 1st June 2008

  • I have eaten Activia for about three weeks now and started having severe gas,bloating,nausea and stomach pain,had an catscan of the stomach and it came back normal,turns out it was and is (since I ate some yesterday and last night and again this morning) the Activia is the enemy here.I will never eat it again or any of my family. These people should be sued and this stuff taken off the market.

    Posted by Jerlivee Peyton on 1st June 2008

  • I happened to catch an Activia advert here in London as I was getting ready to go out this morning. I mistakenly bought some activia yoghurt about 5/6 months ago just to try something different as I was doing my weekly grocery shopping. It tasted vile and we eventually just threw out the remaining yoghurts. What struck me this morning, having never really paid much attention to the adverts before, was hearing the name ‘Bifidus Activiregularis’ or something. The name sunk in about 2 seconds later and I found myself staring at the TV thinking ‘they can’t be serious can they!? What a load of rubbish.’ Its been interesting to see that there is a pending US lawsuit and other debates and criticisms out there about misleading advertising… talk about treating your customers like total suckers for the sake of sales!

    Posted by Just adding to the debate on 29th May 2008

  • JUST TAKE A SHIT ALREADY WINERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by L.MAT on 29th May 2008

  • As it has been said many times already on here, these products may work for one but not for another. I truly sympathize with everyone who has suffered at these company’s hands. I believe the serious problem here is in the advertising of these products : Clinical trials should be published IN FULL, NOT hidden away or simply never seen. The potential risks highlighted on packaging and advertisements. The use of (made-up) ‘scientific’ terminology should be absolutely prohibited. This product claims medicinal benefits and should therefore be subject to the same scrutiny as pharmaceutical products. Advertising standards should shoulder the vast percentage of the blame here – Danone (or any other company) are just money-makers. They should be stopped before they have a chance to begin spouting bull****

    Posted by Tom on 26th May 2008

  • I have had 2 servings, one each day, and have felt queasy on and off, but it seems to be worsening. So I’m done with it.

    Posted by Patricia on 24th May 2008

  • BTW, did you also know that ‘gullible’ isn’t found in the dictionary?

    Posted by Mandie on 22nd May 2008

  • I like the taste, but it makes you feel queasy.

    Posted by Mike on 20th May 2008

  • Severe cramps from chest to stomach, bloating and stomach pain for 2 days..only ate Activa on Sunday morning at 6am and by 9am severe pains, which have eased off a bit today Monday evening and hopefully ends by tomorrow, should I throw the rest out..or take it to a lawyer for a class action?

    Posted by steve lewis on 19th May 2008

  • Your commercials are annoying! 🙁 NO MY SISTER ARE STOOPIDD< IT MAYKS ME CRAP GUD LOLOLOLOLOL

    Posted by Bifidus McRegularis on 18th May 2008

  • I was at this restaurant in upper Windsor, England and I kept eating until I felt bloated beyond imagination. I kept eating and asked for more. Finally the waiter brought me one thin mint and I exploded. I guess I should have had Dannon for dessert instead.

    Posted by Max Spinckter on 11th May 2008

  • Dear Dannon, Bifidus Bologna!!!!!!

    Posted by WendyColson on 11th May 2008

  • Dannon is sellin baloney. Its Activa yogurts have so much other bad food junk in it. The 0 percent fat free Fage yogurts plain with two live bacteria – now that is healthy yogurt. This Dannon effort should be good governmetn controlled – good for Hungaray – and all ads, including poor Jamie Lee Curtis looking ill I don’t know what happened to her, should be revoked. The article here is good.

    Posted by stop on 10th May 2008

  • I have regular BMs and no real digestive problems, but felt that Activia sounded healthy. First day I took it I was fine, second day I was hungry and took 2 containers for lunch. Bad Idea! In a few hours I started having chills, a fever and later horrible bloating and lower bowel cramping, but no real diarrhea. It was enough. I have never gone back to the Activia. The next day felt somewhat better and no longer any fever/chills, but still some bloating and cramping. The third day out I was back to normal. It’s not for everyone. I was scared that the good bacteria in my gut may have been affected permanently, but everything now seems back to normal.

    Posted by Ginny C. on 3rd May 2008

  • Sounds like someone has been watching too many Roadrunner cartoons & Buying too many ACME products

    Posted by Anonymous on 28th April 2008

  • I think Dannon need to say, ‘Eating bifidus regularies helps your poop-a-dare-us….’

    Posted by Sam on 27th April 2008

  • I am very familiar with the benefits of acidophilus…..so decided to try Activia. On day two I began to have those horrible cramps and nausea that many others have experienced. Like others, I thought since my stomach was bothering me, I should have another yogurt. I was just scraping my third container (in three days) clean while reading online about the bad effects that other people have experienced. That was about 6 weeks ago…..and guess what? I AM STILL HAVING PROBLEMS! My stomach is queasy every single day, with some cramping and discomfort. I have not had a day without diarrhea, and my stools are a dark green color no matter what I eat. I am very disturbed that this product is on the market without warnings of the possible bad side effects that MANY have had. BE CAREFUL!!!!!

    Posted by Stephanie on 27th April 2008

  • I have had problems with IBS for a few years, comes and goes.. I have always eaten yogurts before and never had problems. But every time now I noticed that when I eat a probiotic yogurt, like Olympia..even that one within a day gave me more gas, burping, extreme stomach pain, heartburn, and diarrhea. This was about four days ago, and still having mild gas. I will never touch probiotics again. Stick with pure natural yogurt! and add your own fruit. I am convinced now it is the Probiotics.

    Posted by Raquel on 23rd April 2008

  • Stonyfield Farm ORGANIC yogurt also contains the Bifidus culture, and NO artificial sweeteners and/or pesticides/hormones/chemicals….just all-natural organic yogurt with probiotics. Dannon is simply fooling their consumers…nearly all yogurts contain ‘good’ yeasts for your body..which is why they are called YOGURTS and not puddings!!!

    Posted by Linda on 21st April 2008

  • I am glad I found this page. I too have had serious stomach problems since starting DanActive. I thought I had some kind of female problem, even went to the OB for an exam – yuck! I’m glad it turned out that nothing was wrong down there but then I couldn’t imagine what else it could have been…until I thought, ‘wow, the pain did start after I started eating DanActive.’ I stopped eating it just a couple of days ago and am feeling MUCH better…not perfect yet but better. I am sure it was the DanActive now. I won’t touch the stuff again. Thanks for all the other notes. -E

    Posted by Elissa on 21st April 2008

  • Anyone realize Danones big claim to fame is they have added a LAXATIVE to yogurt?

    Posted by bob kulesa on 17th April 2008

  • I could not stand it when Jamie Lee Curtis said on a national TV commercial, Dannon Yoghurt had the ingredient ‘Bifidus Regularis’. I knew it was a made up substance. It sounds phony. I looked it up and sure enough I was right. It disgusts me when marketers try to make fools of the public. It is such an insult to our intelligence.

    Posted by Krey on 15th April 2008

  • Howus canus so-us manyus peopleus be-us wrong-us?

    Posted by Logus Incredimus on 14th April 2008

  • First of all I would like to say that I started eating Dannon yougurt as an extra because I was always regular. THIS IS THE WORST THING HUMANS INVENTED. I ate it for 4 days. Immed. after the first day, I felt a little gassy with a little cramping. I took it for 3 more days and I have to say that I have NEVER experienced such pain in my life. All across the bottom of my whole stomach. Severe pain and the feeling to go, and nothing! Not only that, when yopu do go, it is darker in some areas than normal. This is horrible. I started thinking that I had a bacterial infection or a SEVERE trac infection. Then I realized that this all started 4 days ago when I started the Dannon yogurt. God bless you if it worked, but God help us that it didnt becasue this pain is HORRIBLE…like nothing I have ever had before. If you are regular , STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!!!!!!!!!! I stopped taking it and in 1 day I feel better, not completely normal yet, still a little pain, but MUCH better tha!

    Posted by Tina on 13th April 2008

  • I’m trying to get over a bout of diarroea (squits) and have stomach cramps and started looking into probiotics; it looks like some people find this is a good way to get what I already have! Screw that for a laugh, I’ve got a sore enough ringpiece as it is. Good bye and much love, Jim.

    Posted by Rim Job on 11th April 2008

  • I had been eating Activia for about two weeks when I began experiencing stomach cramping and expelling an unusual mucous-like substance when passing an incredible amount of gas. The only new food in my diet recently was the Activia. So here I am today, trying to research side effects that Activia may cause. I had no idea I was eating anything that could be so detrimental to my health!! I sit here with abdominal pain and a sensation of needing to have a bowel movement, not to mention the rectal discomfort and tenderness!!! Gee whiz, thanks alot Dannon!!!!!!!!

    Posted by Cookie on 6th April 2008

  • I want the manufacturers of this product to know that this product is totally disappointing to say the least. I would not recommend it to my friends.

    Posted by Margaret Murray on 5th April 2008

  • Warning! I began eating Activia on March 16, 2008 and, after a few hours, became extremely sick with uncontrollable belching, bloating, severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, weakness and nausea. I thought I was going to die! Thinking I had a stomach bug or the like, I kept eating Activia, thinking it would help the problem. However, the symptoms kept getting worse. I took Activia for 11 days and was still sick. On the twelfth day, for some reason it dawned on me to Google Activia and found the blogs on the adverse affects. I immediately stopped eating it and the next day I was almost back to normal with just a few gas pains remaining. In the next few days after that, I was completely normal again! If you eat Activia and experience these symptoms, please stop immediately! It only gets WORSE!

    Posted by Andrea on 3rd April 2008

  • NEVER AGAIN!!! ATE ACTIVIA FOR 3DAYS HAD SEVERE STOMACH PAINS, TOILET ALOT AND ENDED UP OF WORK SICK! NOT GOOD!!!!

    Posted by Donna on 2nd April 2008

  • I am a disabled arthritic with reactive arthritis. I have been on prednisone (20mg a day) for about 5 years now. I have a repressed immune system from the prednisone which I must take because my arthritis attacked me everywhere, not just in my joints. I have lost 60% of the macula in my right eye.As little as reducing my prednisone dosage to 15 mg a day results in the macula in both eyes flaring up with edemas. I’ve been told that I have a ‘soft tissue’ arthritis. I am also HLB-B27 positive. That is a gene that indicates my skin type.For pain, I’ve been put on opiates because my kidneys and liver have sustained too much damage from NSAIDS.A big side effect of opiates is constipation – to get away from Metamucil everyday…I studied the package carefully; there is no warning on the package for persons with impaired immunity. I started Activia on Feb 4th and consumed one serving a day, as directed, until Feb 9th 2006. That evening I had a case of diarrhea that smelled worse than anything I ever smelled before. I couldn’t wait to get out of the bathroom! (Since then, I have learned that this smell is a known side effect.)The next morning, Feb 10th,, 5:30 AM, I had severe pain across the bottom of my abdomen. I was convinced I had a bladder infection.I called my primary physician, talked to his nurse who refused to give me antibiotics. Her words; ‘You need to go to the emergency room, you could have appendicitis. Up to that point (about 9:00 AM) I had NO INTENTION to go to a doctor, let alone a hospital! But the pain kept increasing.So I called my wife (11 AM) to come home and drive me. I knew I couldn’t drive myself; I was too nauseated and dizzy. She got home from work about 12:30. We made up our collective mind that we’d put up with the wait in the emergency room instead of the walk in clinic and we drove to St Vincent’s in Bridgeport. We didn’t leave right away; I’m still convinced it is a bladder infection. We left at about 1:30 pm. Because we drove, not taking an ambulance, we got placed in the waiting room instead of going straight into the Emergency Room. After about 20 minutes I told my wife to tell the reception desk that if I didn’t get a place to lie down in the next 5 minutes, I would have to lie down on the floor, and I meant it. Five minutes later (about 2:30pm) the intern is checking me over and they were taking my vitals. My temperature was 100, blood pressure 100/60. Pushing and poking, looking in every nook and cranny, the intern says ‘Mr. P, we really can’t see anything wrong with you. The nurse takes my blood pressure one more time: 60/30! BingoMy little room was invaded by 10 people. They started an IV. I am about passed out from the pain even though I am on an opiate patch for my arthritis. My temp went to 102 to 97 to 101 to 99. Blood pressure was as low as 50 / 20.They RAN me down to a CAT scan, called the Chief Surgeon, pumped me up with antibiotics and something to increase my blood pressure, inserted a catheter. As soon as the got my BP over 100, they RAN me to the operating room.I woke up at 1 AM with the last 8 inches of colon removed. The official diagnosis was diverticulitis. The doctors don’t believe that the yogurt did it. If you read the Activia web sites downloadable document for medical professional, it tells you that the lactic acid level increase by 29% and fecal matter flow increases by 100%. They were very clear to me that if my wife got me there 20 minutes later I would probably have been dead from the bacteremia. The stool had also leaked into my pericardium. One of the interns said to me that a large percentage of people they see with my condition arrive to the emergency room already dead.The Chief Surgeon tells my wife and daughter I’m in really bad shape and he can’t promise anything. They had to wait 5 hour of surgery to find out I was going to be ok. They had a big section of my intestines pulled out of me so that they could get to the bottom section.I wear a colostomy bag and will require 2 surgeries to be put back together again.I believe that this is happening to other people who have impaired immune systems and try Activia. I keep reading about people that have tried Activia having extreme nausea and dizziness. It makes me shake in memory of that day! (I woke up in the ICU at 1:00 am of Feb 11th to a nurse saying ‘Happy Birthday, we gave you a nice bag to wear!) Dannon has created a product that may be fine for the vast majority of people. I would NOT have tried it if there was a warning about problems in people who have impaired immune systems.Well, either I’m right and there will be a class action suit against Dannon, or I’m wrong and it was a coincidence. I really believe that my colon has a hole in it because I ate Activia yogurt. I really hate the fact that if I’m right I have to wait until other people lose their lives to be proved right. This is a case where I would get a hefty chunk of money if I’m right but very much hope I’m wrong because of the suffering being right would cause.If anyone else has gone through an ‘Adverse Event’,of any type, please post a comment or start a new blog. This blog site should become a repository of information regarding any problems people have with Activia. I will try to post as much information as I can. Make sure, if you have surgery like I did that they preserve the pieces taken out. My colon was about to be disposed of when I called and asked them to preserve it. Tomps: I sent that nurse flowers AND candy.

    Posted by Tom Partridge on 28th March 2008

  • I do not know too much about the probiotic health claims, but I do make my own yoghurt at home. I found that Activa is a great starter/innoculant to use; it makes a firm, quick setting yoghurt and the whey doesn’t separate. I highly reccomend it for these reasons. If there’s any health benefits, even better.

    Posted by Gavin on 24th March 2008

  • I have had serveral sinus infections and ear infections, due to the antibiotics I was taking it gave me colitis. Now when I take an antibiotic I eat activia to help put good bacteria back into my colon. I also eat activia as a snack sometimes, I have never felt better.

    Posted by tray on 24th March 2008

  • I’ve had IBS for many years, some times I don’t go for four days ar a time. I just took my first cup of Activa. I will get back to you after my first week of use.

    Posted by Lilljo6 on 21st March 2008

  • I have had many of the symptoms listed here, my gastroenterologist put me on a probiotic called Align with Bifantis, and I have had improvement. I have found the following tips very useful to manage a challenging gut and you have probably heard of many of them: use whole grain breads, very little raw vegetables – the roughage can exasperate some symptoms, increase fiber (very important – it balances and makes hard things soft and soft things firm), 1-2 Citrucel (or generic) with meals and a few Trisket wheat crackers after lunch or dinner (this also absorbs fat from the meal) Note that roughage and fiber are two different things. Use soy instead of milk products; reduce items that fill your stomach with air i.e. carbonated drinks (or let the beverage go flat before drinking), chewing gum, and straws. Let your stomach acids do their job – don’t drink a lot of liquids with meals to dilute the acid. Reduce fatty and spicy meals. Take a multi vitamin every other day with a meal. Get on a schedule i.e. get up earlier to evacuate your gut, eat around the same time every day, eat medium size portions, don’t graze on junk all day or night, or eat too late. Get enough sleep, exercise, and get a hobby. I know this one sounds weird – think loving thoughts and rub your tummy clockwise, this is where many people hold their stress and emotions, or resent their body for not acting right – and it reacts like a rebellious child. Look into some of the medications you are taking – many do not advertise that they cause GI problems – such as Alieve or synthroid. Good luck.

    Posted by Ann on 18th March 2008

  • I have all the sympteoms of I.B.S. but my dr. says I don’t have I.B.S.. I’ve tried everything out there, they work at first, then my body would get used to them, then I would have to look for something else. 2 weeks ago I had my first 8 pack of ACTIVA and the second day the systoms of I.B.S. had gone completly away. I am a 55 year old disabled man. Now I’m feeling like I was 15 year old kid. I’m sorry that it don’t work for everyone, its really a wonderful feeling to be normal again!

    Posted by Robert on 7th March 2008

  • I have constant diarrhea up 10 times per or more. I’ve been put on all kinds of medication to help or stop this, none have worked. I have used DanActive for one week & I cannot believe the results.

    Posted by Donna Cowan on 5th March 2008