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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is Dr. Roushaw.

Let's go over some exciting updates in probiotic research. I have about 10 studies that I'd like to

detail for you, which I think can help you better understand

how and why to use probiotics. All righty, so let's jump in with the first study. This study was

attempting to answer the question, can probiotics improve cognition? The intervention was a randomized

control trial in 78 adults over 65 years of age

with mild cognitive decline and they were randomized to receive either control, a placebo,

or a probiotic as lactobacillus plantarium. Now when the probiotic group was compared to the controls at a three-month

follow-up, there was no change in overall memory or in verbal memory, but there was an improvement

in visual memory scores. So a minimal finding of probiotics being able to improve cognition and why or how

it is that probiotics may improve cognition, even though this study didn't have a strong finding,

is for a few reasons. Probiotics may improve nutrient absorption, probiotics may reduce inflammation,

and probiotics may also reduce the amount of toxins that enter this sort of intero- hepatic

cerebral loop.

There is a condition known as a hepatic encephalopathy where toxins cannot be adequately filtered

by the liver.

They build up in the blood.

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