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Now let's head to the show. Hi, this is speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head

to the show. Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and let's discuss the question, can you obtain adequate

probiotics from probiotic-rich foods like fermented foods, sauerkraut, kimchi, kombuchas, kefir. And the

answer is, yes, these are definitely an important aspect to a healthy

diet, in my opinion, and should be at least attempted to be routinely consumed. As long as one

does not have any kind of symptomatic reaction when consuming a given fermented food, then yes,

these do seem to be healthy and health promoting because of the

bacteria that they contain and the fact that these bacteria tend to have a favorable impact on our

digestive systems. These include being anti-inflammatory, potentially anti-licky gut, and also

providing or assisting in creation of certain vitamins.

So consuming fermented foods and the bacteria, the life cultures they contain, is a good health practice and something that seems to have dropped off in Western societies, even though more traditional cultures do appear to have made fermented foods

a routine part of their diet.

Now, a deeper question is, can you obtain a clinical dose or can you consume enough?

So how we define enough is a challenge because there's not necessarily one

magical intake of probiotics in the diet that is going to be right for everyone. So perhaps another

way we can look at this is to pose the question in such a way that if you have an imbalance or symptoms in your gut,

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