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In this episode, we discuss:
- Why your stool microbiome may not be a good indicator of your gut health
- Why probiotics aren’t useless
- How your gut microbiome fights change
- What really happens when you take probiotics after antibiotics
- Why you should consider banking a stool sample, if possible
- Key takeaways from these two studies
Show notes:
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Chris Kresser: Lucy, thanks so much for joining me
Lucy Mailing: Thanks for having me on.
Chris Kresser: So this was kind of a big bombshell that was dropped. This study we’re going to be talking about today … and I’m excited that you've been able to join us. Because every so often in science and research, we get a finding that completely contradicts what we thought before. And this is, of course, vital to science.
This is part of the scientific method, that we continually challenge our hypotheses and try to falsify them. And if you were to ask the average person on the street, I think, should you take probiotics after take antibiotics, and the average physician and the average researcher, the answer would probably almost universally be yes. But this study suggests that the answer may be no.
Lucy Mailing: Yep. Yeah, I think you really have to be willing to put your bias aside here and we have to go where the evidence takes us. |