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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, this is Dr.

Rucho. Let's debunk a claim that probiotics are bad for your microbiota and that if you're taking

antibiotics, you should avoid probiotics.

Every once in a while, I'll come across a news piece that is really discordant with what the evidence shows.

And I try to set the record straight because the only person who suffers when a journalist

is sort of selectively citing what makes waves and gets clicks is you. Because if you're given a

cherry-picked recommendation that's at odds with what the body of scientific evidence shows,

then you will likely make a inferior decision regarding your health, and therefore you won't

feel as good as you could.

So we'll put up a few clips here, but essentially a Washington Post columnist wrote a piece

and was also interviewed on CBS making the claim amidst a few different claims, but the central

claim was really, be careful about

probiotics. Probiotics may not be good for you. Probiotics may reduce diversity in the microbiota,

in that colony of bacteria and other organisms that live in your gut. And we know that a diverse

microbiota is typically a healthy microbiota. And so this

journalist wrote this article, did its interviews, and this is why I'm wearing my science over

dog my shirt today, because he cites as the main basis, one study by this group in Israel, which has published some interesting research,

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