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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 what are the most effective supplements for the gut microbiota. And if you've been

paying attention, you've likely pieced together that the gut microbiota. And if you've been paying attention, you've likely pieced together that the gut microbiota

can impact your mood, your cognition, your sleep, energy, metabolism, endocrine function,

your skin, your joints, and of course, your digestion.

So it's a very important area of our body to understand

and to optimize. However, that being said, some supplements seem like they would be really

helpful. And when we look at the clinical trial data, we see, wow, the supplements that are

seemingly so helpful in favorably impacting the gut microbiota

actually don't help and make some people worse. So I'll break down for you what are the two

most effective supplements, what one supplement is effective, and then what supplements are not really that effective

even though they appear as though they would be okay well let's jump in and no

discussion would be complete without discussing probiotics.

Here is probably the best data point that we have to date

telling us what effect do probiotics have on the gut

microbiotics.

And when I say the best data point that we have,

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