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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to

Dr. Ruscio. This is Dr. Monica Ruscio. And today, let's do another podcast on research updates

in probiotics. Just as a quick preface, probiotics are live organisms which exert a

healthy impact upon the host. Definitionally, they are not necessarily defined by or limited to

being called probiotics if they colonize you. And I just want to make this reminder,

mainly because someone of whom I've come across their work lately and been enjoying, Lane Norton,

his PhD, and I think he has a very good perspective on cutting through the BS, getting to the

importance of science and using research

to help guide us through otherwise contentious issues.

And he talks a lot about nutrition for metabolic health.

And of course, that's very contentious.

But I came across one of its posts recently and someone said,

probiotics, are they worth it?

Something like this and asked me anything.

And his reply was disappointingly and surprisingly flat and I think a little bit off the mark, quite a bit off the mark, in that his response read something along the lines of not really because they don't colonize you and or have a significant impact on the colonic microbiota. But prebiotics, on the other hand,

do have an impact and therefore you probably want to use prebiotics. And what was so odd about that is, while on the one hand, so much

of Lane Norton's work I found to be very insightful, this was looking at mechanisms and making

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