Fascinating: probiotics are potentially a negative for gut function after antibiotics - the bacteria in the probiotics aggressively colonize the existing gut microbiome, which is the exact opposite of the intended effect #19ADCpic.twitter.com/BEovMBkdew
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Replying to @GidMK
If I'm not mistaken they didn't show in the paper that it has negative consequences, this was just assumed. In some cases the original microbiome may be worse. Probiotics is given to patients with UC for example. We still don't know enough I think...
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Replying to @AvinunReut
Absolutely. I mentioned this in the thread - can't assume that they're all good or all bad, the reality is that we just don't really know yet either way
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