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

Let's cover some bad science in SIBO and if probiotics should or should not be used. In short,

recently, a group of thought leaders at admittedly,

probably the most permanent center in SIBO research and publication, commented that you should

avoid Lytobosolus probiotic. And this came from two small studies, and I want to quickly cover

what those studies found, how I think it's

clear to conclude that their comments to avoid lactobacillus are incorrect, show you the easy-to-follow

evidence trail that you should use lactobacillus or other like probiotics if you have

CBO and give you a simple protocol with which to do so.

So these thought leaders essentially commented to avoid lactobacillus based upon two small observational

studies.

And what these studies found was that when lactobacillus was higher, it appeared to, or correlated with lower diversity,

and that higher lactobacillus may displace certain bacteria in the small intestine.

And from that, again, the conclusion was, avoid supplementing with lactopacillus.

However, in these same two studies,

it was also shown that higher levels of lactobacillus correlated with less bloating and that lactobacillus

may combat methanogens and correlate with less constipation. So not only are these two small studies,

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