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Yes and no? I'm sure it's a fierce fight, but AFAIK a diet of fermented foods is considered healthy, and good for digestion. So presumably a diet of fermented f
by Arn_Thor 9y ago
Yes and no? I'm sure it's a fierce fight, but AFAIK a diet of fermented foods is considered healthy, and good for digestion. So presumably a diet of fermented foods can result in some beneficial equilibrium
- adrianN 9y agoMy point is that it's unclear whether the effect the medication has on the gut microbiome is harmful, beneficial or neutral.
- HillaryBriss 9y agoI don't know the answer but I wonder the same thing. One intriguing view of it is: "... most popular pharmaceuticals, NSAIDs, statins, anti-depressants, anti-diabetics, etc., also have substantial antibiotic activity. Most of these pharmaceuticals started out as phytoalexins and then were found to also have pharmaceutical activity. Pharmaceuticals are just repurposed natural antibiotics. When you take an aspirin or Metformin or a statin, you are taking an antibiotic. When you take a pharmaceutical, you are selecting for multiple antibiotic resistance plasmids in your gut flora and you may be making the next superbug." From http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com/2014/06/antibiotic-resistance-superbugs-and.html http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com/2014/06/antibiotic-r...