Probiotics/Prebiotics – Very good for Some, but no Panacea
This is another post that I had waiting for completion; it is not saying do not use pre/probiotics, it is just saying make sure you know what you are doing. Plenty of people appear to be wasting their money on ineffective bacteria, some people are making themselves sick, but others get a genuine benefit worth paying for. The is no one-size fits all. Some bacteria are good for some people and bad for others. It gets more expensive the further you live from Switzerland, but with the right oral bacteria you need a very modest amount. One of today’s studies shows that spending money on stool tests for bacteria to fine tune a therapy may be a waste of money, unless you do your homework first. There is currently a lot written about the role of the gut microbiome on human health. Unfortunately, it tends to get simplified into just good bacteria and bad bacteria. Advice like “take a good bacteria” is not very useful. The reality is that some people take a store-bought...