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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

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Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial

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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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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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    Also there are supposed to be whole probiotic worlds in our gut. One species is nothing.

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      8 months ago

      Clostridium difficile has entered the gut

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      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.

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        Cyanobacteria, amiright.

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        Yes, what I mean is there’s no way to restore it with just one or even a few species.

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          Be careful, that’s how you get to stool transplants

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            Yep, that seems to be logical.

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