Posted 10 March 2010 - 12:33 AM
i should correct myself in that certain ingredients were chose that are not essential, namely lycopene & lutien...but those are very much a part of a LE style diet and have clearly defined benefits in humans, across different populations. eg there arent hundreds of types of lutein that effect different people differently as there are with lactobacilli.
finding a probiotics that sits well with you often takes a lot of trial and error as far as finding specific strains, formulations & doses. for example, i've tried nearly all the well studied probiotics and found very few that sit well with me, and only one that i can take on a daily basis if i choose to. these seems to been the case with most people as is echoed across the forum.
as such, including probiotics in the multi wouldnt be a good thing because it would exclude too large a percent of the population.