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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to

Dr. Rousha Radio. This is Dr. Michael Rucho. And let's do yet another run through of recently

published research in the realm of probiotics.

The first study I'd like to cover is just yet another data point that illustrates the strain

specificity of probiotics doesn't really seem to matter.

Now remember, species is one level of organization on the

taxonomical chart up from strain. So you could have, in this case, we'll talk about the

bacillus coagulins, which is a soil-based type of probiotic.

And then you can go a step further from the species of bacillus coagulins down to the specific

strain, and one of which is bacillus coagulins MTCC-586.

It's just the strain designation that MTC. So this study is another, in my

opinion, admonition that we really can't say that the strain specificity matters. I'll come

in the details here in a moment, but I want to, you'll flag for you

that the reason why this is relevant is because if the strain specificity does not help you obtain

better outcomes, then it gets in your way of knowing how to use probiotics and presumably makes it

more difficult for you to use probiotics and therefore

improve your health and potentially even make it more expensive for you because now you're

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