Received my MAF 878 starter this afternoon. It came in a flip-top pint canning jar that had leaked some, but they had it in a ziploc bag so there was no real mess. It's yellow and smells quite yeasty. The instructions call for letting it sit at room temperature for 5 days. So apparently yogurt makers and other contraptions will not be necessary. What you will need is a new wooden spoon. Here are the full instructions they give:
MAF Production
The starter contains probiotic bacteria and colostrum, which when added to kefir and yoghurt will produce MAF.
Get a gallon glass jar, wide mouth jar is preferable, so that stirring is made easier. Wash the jar thoroughly rinsing away soap residue.
add container of starter to glass jar
add one quart kefir to glass jar (goat kefir if lactose intolerant)
add one pint yoghurt to glass jar (goat yoghurt if lactose intolerant)
add one pint full cream milk to glass jar (goat milk if lactose intolerant)
The goat substitution may or may not satisfy the lactose intolerance it varies patient to patient.
The final mixture is approx. 66 ounces (approx 2 liters) sufficient for one month.
Stir thoroughly with new wooden spoon to mix starter throughout mixture. Keep this spoon solely for the MAF.
Allow glass jar mixture to mature at room temperature for 5 days, stirring each day.
After five days the mixture should be ready for administration and may be kept in a refrigerator.
Take 2.5 oz (approx. 75 ml) with food each morning. Some patients add one teaspoon of olive oil or flax see oil to reduce the gastric enzymes digesting the MAF 878.
Thanks Camas for sharing this. Regarding the instructions saying it only needs to be kept at room temperature, as i've seen elsewhere it should be kept at 80F, the room temperature instruction seems to have changed. I googled what classes as room temperature and it says it's approx between 20c and 23.5c/73F with 21c/70F being classed as average. Being in the UK, my room can definitely get cooler than that even now in the summer (ah bloomin British weather), but if it is true that the temp now only has to be between 20-23.5 c that is certainly easier than the 80F originally given.
Sushi, when I corresponded with Dr Enlander's office last week, I asked if I could use only half of the starter keeping the other half to make up the following month, as i want to start slow, they replied yes but didn't give me instructions on how to store the unused half. I don't know whether this info helps you.
Edit:
Just checked the ebay site and that still gives instructions for keeping it at 80F. Would be good to get confirmation of what is the correct instructions now. THink I'll e mail Dr Enlander's office
