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What I take away from this article is that once antibiotics disturb the gut biome, restoring it to the original condition is nontrivial.
by rectang 8y ago
What I take away from this article is that once antibiotics disturb the gut biome, restoring it to the original condition is nontrivial.
- ricardobeat 8y agoAnd here I thought that was the whole point. If your microbiome is in such great shape, then why would you be taking probiotics?
- rectang 8y agoSay that your microbiome was in fine shape before you went on antibiotics for some completely unrelated reason, such as to address an infected finger. Yes, you would want your old microbiome back. Well, from this study we see that probiotics aren't a way to cancel out that side effect of antibiotics. To my mind that suggests refocusing on the microbiome-disturbing effects of antibiotics.