KNP342 - Are probiotics worth the money?
The Next Level Health & Fitness Podcast (Formerly The Key Nutrition Podcast)
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, I discussed supplementing with probiotics and whether it is worth your money. Probiotics' popularity is fueled mainly by surging scientific and public interest in the human microbiome. According to the latest estimate, the human gastrointestinal system contains about 39 trillion bacteria, most of which are in the large intestine. In the past 15 years, researchers have established that many of these microbes are essential for health. Collectively, they crowd out harmful microbial invaders, break down fibrous foods into more digestible components and produce vitamins such as K and B12. The controversy stems from whether these small amounts of probiotics in supplement pills actually do anything or are they just a tiny drop in the bucket. I explore the pros and cons of spending money taking probiotics and help give you more information on if they are right for you.
Episode with Travis Zipper – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gut-health-101-whats-wrong-and-solutions-to-heal-it/id1437983368?i=1000491658886
Health Benefits of Probiotics article - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045285/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Key Nutrition Podcast, your one stop shop for anything, food, fitness, and mindset. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's episode, it was just myself and I got to the physical leg of the chair and in particular |
| 0:10.4 | with supplementation and the vast majority of the episode was spent on one supplement in particular |
| 0:14.4 | and that is the use of probiotics. Is it necessary? Do we need to take them? What are the pros? What are the |
| 0:20.1 | cons? I went over everything. |
| 0:22.3 | My humble opinion is that the vast majority of you guys probably don't need |
| 0:25.1 | probiotics. |
| 0:25.7 | You need to adjust your lifestyle factors and assess your gut health from a more broad |
| 0:31.6 | spectrum than just trying to put a supplement because it actually could make things |
| 0:34.8 | worse. |
| 0:35.6 | I also am linking a study in the show notes for you guys to check out. |
| 0:39.1 | Some of the benefits of probiotics through this study they found, but at the end of it, |
| 0:42.8 | the conclusion basically said, and I read the whole conclusion to you, which I kind of wish |
| 0:45.9 | I wouldn't because it was boring me as I was reading it, that there is some early evidence |
| 0:50.3 | showing that this could work in certain things. |
| 0:52.6 | This could help with this. |
| 0:53.9 | This could help with this this could |
| 0:54.4 | help with post antibiotic stuff there's also studies claiming they don't so keep that in mind |
| 1:01.2 | but at the end it said this all should be viewed with incredible skepticism because this uh probiotics |
| 1:06.4 | are in their early infancy stages really the study of the gut is in its early infancy stages. So |
| 1:12.4 | every gut is uniquely different. And a lot of you guys are taking probiotics out there that probably |
| 1:17.5 | don't need to be, again, if they seem to be helping or a doctor or a coach you work with very |
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