FINAL COMMENTS There is another misconception that needs to be put in a right perspective. All viable friendly bacteria that have any appreciable potency requires refrigeration during storage. The one-year guarantee or any guarantee means that refrigeration is necessary in order for their guarantee to be valid. All culture products will begin to deteriorate the moment they are manufactured. They are in suspended hibernation when freeze-dried and 95 per cent of all culture products of today are freeze-dried. They become active only when the temperature rises about 60 degrees and when moisture is present. Keeping the product below 40 degrees in a cool, dry place is essential for long shelf life. If you want to keep cultures for long periods of time, then the above requirements should be met. However, it is best to not buy any more culture than is necessary for about three or four months, six at the most. Long shelf life is not as important as is fresh product used up within three months. This will give you the best results regardless of guarantees. Most people recognize the need for refrigeration, but many are easily upset or over anxious about doing so. Refrigerating your cultures as soon as possible is good, but they are not going to die or deteriorate to any degree if left out of refrigeration, even for several days. If you take a trip or need to keep them with you for a whole day without refrigeration, then do it. They will be OK? If your products sit on your porch all day after delivery, they are not destroyed. Your body temperature is 98.6 degrees and the cultures are comfortable in 100-degree temperatures and will remain alive and active in temperatures up to 120 degrees. If you go on an extended vacation for one or two weeks, even one month and refrigeration of the friendly flora is not possible, it will make no difference as long as they are used up within a short time afterwards, which is usually going to happen anyway.   Non-refrigeration does not weaken or destroy the cultures as much as it shortens their shelf life and they just need to be used up sooner perhaps no longer than 60 days. We mention this because many people believe the cultures are dead or nearly extinct if they are out of the refrigerator for any period of time or sat n the heat of the day for more than 24 hours. You might lose 25 percent of the billions there are per bottle if not refrigerated for approximatel 30 days, but very little is lost in just two to three days. That is not enough to worry about and they still do their work just as effectively. Don t panic if heat or non-refrigeration takes place for a short period of time: Just use them up within approximately thirty to sixty days. This is one reason why high potency in a product is good. Any loss that does occur still leaves you with substantial amounts for re-implantng and getting the job done. Remember these are living orgamsms and the moment they enter your body they begin to grow and multiply. Any loss under any circumstances is made up for once they enter the intestines. They become a permanent resident of your digestive system and are always there, multiplying and dying as natural events take place. Again, the reason for a good culture program is that most people were never started early enough in life with the proper quantities due to the many already explained reasons. Plus the intake of even a single dose of antibiotic will destroy vast amounts very quickly. The more yeast or fecal debris there is in the intestines, the more difficult it is for the cultures to re-establish themselves. You may put high amounts in on a daily basis, but adherence and proliferation is minimal in the beginning and many are lost or destroyed in the process. Once the intestinal atmosphere has been improved after several months of therapy, then there is greater efficiency in their growth patterns and more and more begin to multiply and remain. Therefore, when you consider how much your potential culture base should be (up to 100 trillion on a permanent basis) you have a need for re-implanting that will take several months to accomplish. You have been introduced to an excellent 'probiotic program' using the finest of ingredients along with proven instructions and explanations which were developed after years of experience with in-field trail and error research. You now have a better understanding of the relationship between you and your internal friends. Take good care of them and they will definitely take good care of you. Your whole life will change when you no longer have a yeast problem and the friendly flora are abundantly thriving in the intestinal area. Be patient and follow the instructions as best you can. Make sure you follow through to the end. If you cut short your program activity, you will also cut short your results and will experience partial success. If you whittle away at all the negatives that may occupy your intestines with, a continuous input of the friendly flora, then these negatives will eventually leave you and you will be free of a burden that could possibly destroy the very goodness and quality of your life: Again "Purity" is seventy five per cent of your health and nutrition is about twenty five per cent. You can put in all the nutrition possible and still be sick. But if you remove all the impurities within the body through cleansing, fasting, etc, then all disease conditions of poor health will eventually dissapear. If you can become pure and clean within yourself, then you will find a life of goodness, happiness and peacefulness outside of yourself.