The Benefits and Risks of Probiotic Supplements
Probiotics can actually interfere with microbiome recovery after antibiotics, rather than facilitate it. What probiotics can and can’t do.
For more on probiotics, see:
• Gut Feelings: Probiotics and Mental Health ( )
• Preventing and Treating Diarrhea with Probiotics ( )
• Preventing the Common Cold with Probiotics? ( )
• Should Probiotics Be Taken Before, During, or After Meals? ( )
• Culture Shock: Questioning the Efficacy and Safety of Probiotics ( )
It’s better to feed our gut bugs with prebiotics. Check out Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden ( ) and How to Keep Your Microbiome Healthy with Prebiotic Foods ( ).
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Bag your poop and shelve it ✌🏾💩
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Thanks – important to learn how to improve gut health in a healthy way, which btw contributes also to improving sleep quality. There’s a meta-analysis suggesting that probiotics may have a positive impact on sleep 😴
Instead of posting meaningless sleep emojis, why don’t you try linking us to the meta-analysis?
Very interesting. Thanks.
Interesting. I’ve always found them very helpful in preventing post-antibiotic thrush and bloating, plus in other situations involving low immunity and digestive distress. The only bad effects came when everything was ok again and I needed to stop taking them. 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you!
Let’s gooooooooo 😮
I only get hunger from probiotics, thats it.
I read on a forum about folks using probiotics to treat fatty tumors in dogs. I tried this treatment on my dog and some tumors went away completely others were greatly reduced by more than 50% over a period of about 4 months.