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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone, welcome back. Today,

let's discuss probiotics and if they can help with IBS and or CBO. These are two very important

questions because IBS affects up to 20% of the U.S. population.

And maybe as much as half of that IBS may be underlied by CBO. So this tool of probiotics

potentially has merit. There's a lot of confusion about how or where to not or to use probiotics as it regards to CBO and IBS.

So what I wanted to do here is provide you with a really data-driven objective overview of

both sides of the arguments on yay or nay for probiotics in these conditions and let you decide for yourself. So we'll discuss

probiotics for IBS and probiotics for SIBO. And the first, the first question is, can

probiotics help with IBS? Specifically, Dan asks, I recently saw your video from, or I recently saw a video online from

a doctor talking about IBS.

He said probiotics should not be used for the treatment of IBS.

What would you say to this?

Okay, so let's break this down.

The answer here, I think, is very well exemplified by this data point, a meta-analysis from 2020,

and they conclude, supplementation with a multi-strain probiotic can improve IBS symptoms.

So I think this is fairly clear cut, and another study here, different-analysis in beneficial microbes 2022.

And this study actually compared probiotics versus medications.

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