I belong to a couple of other COPD on-line groups and this morning a new member of one of them posted that she had been able to cure her COPD by taking probiotics and nutritional supplements.
I did a Google search for any scholarly articles on probiotics and COPD and found only one article, which states in part, "This suggests that probiotics may be useful in COPD patients, particularly those with frequent viral infections".
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mi/2013/751068/
In June 2012 at the NHLBI's PIO Meeting I heard a presentation from a researcher on gut bacteria and its relationship to obesity. I am wondering if there's been further research to determine whether there is a connection to COPD?