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Warpy

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8. Most of what you get in those expensive probiotics is bugs you can get
Tue Feb 11, 2020, 04:23 PM
Feb 2020

in yougurt with active cultures. If yogurt is too puckery, try kefir.

One thing researchers have noted is that there are many more species in the average microbiome out west than back east and more still outside the US, and that the microbiome changes as we change location, so it's not just the pattern of more antibiotic use back east.

This stuff is really fascinating but it's nowhere near being all that useful for treating illness beyond eating fermented dairy products to reduce the diarrhea a lot of us get with antibiotics.

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