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

Dr. Russo Radio. This is Dr. Makarushu, and today let's go through a number of new studies on

probiotics, as hopefully you're accustomed to. We keep a fairly close eye on what's

being published, and I'd like to break these down into a few different topics, one of which is

probiotics. And the purpose of this isn't necessarily to do a deep dive critiquing or analyzing the statistics, the effect size,

the methodology of a certain paper on probiotics, but rather to pre-filter to either or mostly

clinical trials and or even better yet still, as we'll go through a number of,

meta-analyses, which really gives you the best kind of overview. So meant to keep you in a loop

regarding what are probiotics being studied to remedy and what sort of general effect or effects can we

be expecting from probiotics? And along the way, I'll loop in some of my clinical commentary

and try to tie some of this to how we should be thinking about the application and the use of

probiotics. So to kick us off, the first study looked at the effect of probiotics on sexual function

in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome, this was a double-blind RCT, randomized control

trial of 40 women with PCOS and sexual dysfunction, they were

randomized to Letrozoli, I believe is how you pronounce it, and this fertility drug was given

in the one arm, and in the other arm arm the fertility drug plus symbiotics, which

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