Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial
Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial
If you’re familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.
In a randomized controlled trial, the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis—used in many probiotic products, including Dannon's Activia yogurts—did nothing to improve bowel health in people with constipation, according to data from a randomized triple-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial Wednesday in JAMA Network Open.
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A couple of years back I read of a study which concluded that because we are all so unique, there is no one size fits all probiotic. It's a crap shoot if you want to find one that works for you.
Also there are supposed to be whole probiotic worlds in our gut. One species is nothing.
Clostridium difficile has entered the gut
I don't fully agree with this. There is a whole actual world (this planet), but one species is all it takes to destroy it.
Cyanobacteria, amiright.
Yes, what I mean is there's no way to restore it with just one or even a few species.
Be careful, that’s how you get to stool transplants
Yep, that seems to be logical.
“Crap shoot….”
I see what you did there.