Taking acidophilus for years

I was told that the acidophilus I had been taking for years is not the best because it wasn’t enterically coated and my stomach acid destroyed the Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidus before it got to my intestines. Is this a true statement?

Answer: What you were told is totally untrue. If you eat yogurt or take acidophilus and bifidus orally, the bacteria will survive quite well getting through the stomach acid in your digestive tract. If the above statement was true, then how would the lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidus get started in al of our digestive tracts. The first introduction of this good bacteria into our systems first occurred when we were breast fed and the good bacteria was implanted in our intestines via the stomach. This good bacteria acidophilus and bifidus made it through the stomach acid just fine. If an infant wasn’t breast fed, then there were other sources of this bacterial that eventually cultivated the colonies in our intestinal tract. The acidophilus in the yogurt you eat will survive on its way through the stomach to the intestinal tract. Remember if there is a need to take antibiotics, you should take acidophilus orally either by powder or in cultured yogurt. The acidophilus or bifidus does not have to be encapsulated or enterically coated.