975 - 6 Surprising Benefits of Probiotics (That Aren’t Digestion)

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

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Summary

Probiotics have a surprising amount of benefits that aren’t just for digestion. From cognition and brain fog to depression and autoimmune disease, probiotics have powerful benefits that can improve many conditions. Learn 6 different probiotic benefits and the right protocols to follow to help you heal. Listen now!

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:31 Brain fog & cognition

08:19 Depression

14:30 Immune health

19:37 Antiviral & antibacterial

22:28 Season allergies

24:05 Oxidative stress

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0:00.0	What we've been doing, myself and our research team, is monitoring closely what's being
0:04.4	published and trying to come up with an all-purpose protocol that summarizes across
0:09.5	different trials, those for IBS, irritable bowel, for inflammatory bowel disease, for cognition,
0:16.2	for depression, for skin and atopic conditions, for inflammatory and autoimmune conditions.
0:22.0	If we look and take a big picture of you, what can we conclude in terms of a meta all-purpose
0:27.4	protocol?
0:36.4	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:57.5	Brainfog, if you've had it, you know it. You can describe it as a number of things. A challenge with word recall, fuzzy or foggy thinking, a inability
1:04.2	to remember certain details, perhaps feeling a little bit incoordinated or just otherwise sort of
1:10.1	fatigued.
1:11.1	Now, thankfully, there is more study being done on this entity so that when someone goes to a
1:18.4	doctor's office and says, I have brain fog, the doctor can say, oh, okay, this is actually
1:23.3	a thing that is understood, studied, and we can do X, Y, Z about it. But in short, you feel
1:31.3	mentally like you're not at your sharpest. And it can, again, it can be a little bit different from
1:35.9	person to person, but there's this general haze, this general impairment of your cognition.
1:41.8	Starting off with a 2023 systematic review, so this summarized
1:46.6	10 clinical trials in older adults with cognitive decline. They gave them probiotics. Now,
1:53.9	why probiotics? Well, there's many things you can do to improve your gut health. My position, based upon the research data, is that one of the best,
2:03.1	simplest, safest, and most well-studied supplements you can use to improve your gut health
2:08.3	would be probiotics. And what they found, again, when summarizing 10 randomized control
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