Podcast Episode 282: What is Kefir? 

I say Kefir the way it sounds! Love it! I like to pour some on top of yogurt..It’s so good!

Thank you for making these informative podcasts. My oldest daughter was pumped full of antibiotics on the day she was born to prevent sepsis due to complications and as a result she has been suffering through stomach issues her entire life. I've been making fermented foods and einkorn sourdough bread for the past 2 months and things seem to be improving. I have yet to make Kefir but I want to add that next.

When I started making my own yogurt in a crockpot at first I used lifeway keifer as starter. Later I realized I preferred thicker yogurt so tried Greek, usually store brand live culture, then white mountain Bulgarian yogurt. The sibo blend was my newest one to add and I got some cheapo probiotic supplement recently at a dollar tree of all places of whatever that one id you mention a lot with baffido that starts with a A. Made a yogurt with that believe it or not. So now including the keifer currently in my fridge and the water keifer on my mini deep freezer in my living room in my apt I've got 5 types of yogurt and 2 types of keifer one a yogurt one. Btw, I tend to strain the whey from every yogurt except for keifer and I have once used the whey to ferment a crockpot farmers cheese that was unfermented I made with old milk that was a day or two from spoiling. I made the cheese, pressed it, let it set and sliced it. Then popped in a jar with the whey and some probiotic fiber since I used sibo yogurt whey and fermented in my casori insta pot knock off for 36 hours. Ten out of ten a recipe worth trying again. Also some of my yogurt I've got on hand I made with raw milk and when my snap comes in again I will get some to make the keifer with. And btw, with any of these or fermented veggies pro tip for gakd out there, depends and any fermented veggies or yogurt works great for female yeast infections. I'm in Texas and am on the bus, this time of year that's a major issue but also off and on year around thanx to cycle. Not fun, but I'm avoiding UTI or female cyst again so not really upset about the not fun part.

I had my second bout w c diff and am taking kefir, sour cream and yogurt daily to try to keep from being reinfected.

Have my first batch going right now... excited to start this process

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Are there any temperature concerns for shipping kefir grains? Things are starting to warm up and I know they do better in cooler temps so I was wondering if there would be a loss of biodiversity during shipping and if I should try to time it for a cooler time period?

Any idea why my kefir always has the whey on the top and never bottom. It not over fermented. I watch it all day on the counter while I work

do you know where I can buy a warming belt or is a beer type of belt work?

I'm new here and I need to get the kefir grains to start my kefir. Anyone help. I live N Ireland.

I just started. Getting 2 1/2 cups of kefir with 1 1/2 tablespoons of kefir grains. I’m on week three. When will the grains multiply to produce more kefir?

Donna, I started consuming about 1.5 cups of my homemade milk kefir everyday for about 2 weeks now and I’m noticing that my urine is suddenly cloudy. Could this be the yeast from the kefir I’m consuming? I’ve always been a milk addict and I’ve generally never noticed cloudy urine ever before. I’ve made no other changes to my diet other than kefir. Could this be candida yeast? Thanks.

My kefir pearls/grains are so small compared to when I bought them from you about a year ago, they are very small and about 1 /5th the amount since I bought them , darn it : ( how do I revive it ??

I began making my own kefir last autumn after a tick bite gave me Borreliosis, and I had to take a long course of antibiotics. I have two different kinds of grains, Tibetan and Caucasian. The Tibetan grains are very small and individual. The Caucasian grains are bigger grains than the Tibetan and are like cauliflower, some growing together. Can you please talk about their differences? Thank you.

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This is so easy to make for such great benefits!

I have the kefir grains from cultures for health. Not sure if this brand that brand is good or not.

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I just started. Getting 2 1/2 cups of kefir with 1 1/2 tablespoons of kefir grains. I’m on week three. When will the grains multiply to produce more kefir?