Best Probiotic Supplements

Hi there!

My name is Suzanne McKey. I’m a 32 year old Kansas City gal and I’m a sin­gle mother of 3.  I’m the 3rd of 5 chil­dren in a huge Irish fam­ily with 33 cousins, and there’s some­thing that almost all of us have in common:

We All Have Ter­ri­ble Diges­tive Prob­lems

My Diges­tive Health Journey

From a very young age, I’ve suf­fered from chronic con­sti­pa­tion. It’s not sexy, but its the hon­est truth. Until now, it has been my sin­gle great­est source of humil­i­a­tion and anx­i­ety. The amount of ruined oppor­tu­ni­ties and embar­rass­ing sto­ries that I can credit to con­sti­pa­tion is not some­thing I’m proud of.

At the age of 30, I finally con­quered my biggest hur­dle in life, mainly with pro­bi­otic sup­ple­ments. This blog doc­u­ments my path to reg­u­lar­ity and feel­ing bet­ter than I ever have in my life!

Why a Diges­tive Health Blog?

In my life, diges­tive prob­lems have always been a hin­drance and fre­quently an humil­i­a­tion, but I never took diges­tive health seri­ously until my father, William McKey, was diag­nosed with colon can­cer. He fought for 18 months, but even­tu­ally it got the best of him and he passed away at 62 years old.

My father’s death was both dev­as­tat­ing and sober­ing. Although I was so sad to have lost him, it made me real­ize the sever­ity of the diges­tive issues that run in my family’s blood­line. As a result, I started doing my own research, try­ing out dif­fer­ent sup­ple­ments and speak­ing to var­i­ous experts so that I could pro­tect my own health, my 3 chil­drens’, and attempt to help out the rest of my sib­lings and cousins. Even­tu­ally, instead of hav­ing every con­ver­sa­tion 30 times over, I sent an email to every­one and informed them that I’m start­ing this blog where I’d pub­lish all of my findings.

Since then, oth­ers have taken a lik­ing to my blog, because of the hon­esty and gen­uine­ness with which I try to present the infor­ma­tion that I find.

Why Pro­bi­otic Supplements?

I’ve tried it all. From harsh colon cleansers, to your reg­u­lar over the counter diges­tive med­ica­tions and sup­ple­ments, high fiber diets and other fad sil­ver bul­lets and scams. To date, of every­thing I’ve tried, I’m con­vinced that there is no bet­ter safe, all nat­ural, long-term solu­tion for diges­tive health than Pro­bi­otic Sup­ple­ments.

I started writ­ing this blog after I came to this con­clu­sion, so instead of wast­ing my breath on sup­ple­ments that I don’t think will help you, I mainly focus on Pro­bi­otic Sup­ple­ments.

My Family’s Flat­ter­ing Diges­tive Track Record

Some fam­i­lies are blessed with incred­i­ble artis­tic skills, oth­ers ath­letic, but my fam­ily? We all have diges­tive prob­lems. Here’s a look at our cur­rent track record:

• 11 cases of Irri­ta­ble Bow­els Syn­drome (IBS) amongst siblings/cousins
• 3 cases of Crohn’s Dis­ease
• 1 Colon Can­cer Sur­vivor (my cousin,  Jeffery)
• 1 Colon Can­cer casu­alty (my Father, William, RIP 2008)
• 14 cases of chronic con­sti­pa­tion (includ­ing my mother and I)
• 10,000+  embar­rass­ing fam­ily stories

As you can see, diges­tive health is a major con­cern for my fam­ily. I hope you will find the infor­ma­tion on this site extremely use­ful and will par­tic­i­pate and share your wis­dom and expe­ri­ences with us as well!

Best of (diges­tive) health,

Suzanne McKey
Sept. 2, 2007

P.S. No, I am not a doc­tor, nurse, licensed nutri­tion­ist or any­thing of the sort. I’m just a con­cerned mom try­ing to edu­cate myself and share with oth­ers along the way. Every person’s body is dif­fer­ent so use what I share here to dis­cover what works for you.