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The problem is that you have to take them often to colonize your gut, so it becomes a bit expensive, and it won't work on everyone, depending on their gut (sinc
by jokoon 4y ago
The problem is that you have to take them often to colonize your gut, so it becomes a bit expensive, and it won't work on everyone, depending on their gut (since scientists know too little about the gut).
- goda90 4y agoMy hypothesis is that probiotics also need to be paired with the right diet. Bacteria needs to be fed, and needs to compete with the existing gut flora. If conditions aren't right, then they may never get a foothold.
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- jokoon 4y agoYeah and honestly I don't think there is a "right diet", because that might be highly dependent on the person, his/her food history, medical past, antibiotics, genetics, physical activity, the "initial gut bacteria" at birth, breast fed or not, etc. Of course one can expect the usual "less sugar and fat, more macro nutrient", but unless there's proof and proper cause-effect relationships, it's going to be complex to draw conclusions. I'm not really sure that sugar causes a bad balance in the gut bacteria. Not to mention all the chemicals in food and the environment that makes it almost impossible to track what could work and what would not.
- stephen_g 4y agoYeah, it requires types of dietary fibre classed as ‘prebiotic’ [1]. 1. https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/gastroenterology/prebiotic/faq https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/gastroenterology/prebiot...
- markdown 4y agoOf course the manufacturer will never tell you how to feed your pet bacteria, because they want them to die within a month so they can sell you more.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoI've heard that most of a probiotic dies in the stomach. That what you need is probiotics: foods that make the gut more friendly to the right types of bacteria, which basically amounts to 'a range of vegetables'. I haven't studied this topic however.