CHOICE 4 FITNESS

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Interesting evidence from the data analysis on the followings:

New research suggests that probiotics might not be as effective as we think. Through a series of experiments looking inside the human gut, researchers show that the digestive tracts in many people prevent standard probiotics from successfully colonizing them. Check this comment "Human gut study questions probiotic health benefits", ScienceDaily, 6 September 2018.

Read these following publications supporting this finding:

  • Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features. Zmora, et. al., Cell, 2018; 174 (6): 1388 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.041

  • Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT. Suez, et. al., Cell, 2018; 174 (6): 1406 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.047

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