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treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information

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

Monica Rousseau, D.C. I'm an adjunct professor at the University of Bridgeport, a practicing

clinician, and a clinical researcher. One of the areas I'm most passionate about

is gut health. One of the tools in the gut health kit that is the most effective are probiotics.

And one of the most common questions people ask, does it matter if my probiotics get warm?

If they were shipped to me and the freezer pack melted, or if I left them out on the counter

or they're in the car

and the car got hot will that kill my probiotics and thankfully a systematic review answers this

question best data point we got because this was a systematic review of 40 trials looking at about

4,000 patients so what did this study tell us?

Well, good news.

It doesn't seem to matter if your probiotics get warm.

They're actually just as effective.

But don't take my word for it.

Let's look at this paper by Zorzella, great name, by the way, and colleagues published in

Beneficial Microbes 2017.

Here are a few quotes from the study.

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