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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. What is the best way

to take probiotics regarding duration, dose, with or without food, and what type, what specific

formulas are the best? Let's discuss this today so that you know exactly how to use probiotics effectively.

Why this is so important, probably fairly obvious.

Probiotics are one of the most effective tools we have in the gut health arsenal.

So using these correctly is something that we certainly want to pay a lot of time and attention to.

So let's start our discussion off with a common question, which is how often should you take

probiotics? And there's different theories here in terms of you should take them for too long. You

should rotate from one probiotic to another, too much probiotic can cause

things like overgrowth, and you may even form a dependency.

So let's look at this, and thankfully there's one fairly interesting study, a meta-analysis,

that summarized the available data to date and found that taking probiotics daily is adequate ample and efficacious.

And what I would mention and like you to keep in mind here is that, well, there might be all

these theories in terms of what it's best. Most all probiotic research studies have people simply

take probiotics once, maybe twice per day.

There's not a more complicated protocol. And as we'll detail here in a moment, there's a very

large body of data showing probiotics help with a wide array of conditions. So if we're seeing

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