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How's it going?

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez.

And today we have a Q&A episode.

We are going to be covering three topics.

The first topic that we're going to cover is whether or not you need to take a probiotic while you're taking an antibiotic. So there's this idea that while you're taking an antibiotic,

you're killing off some microbes in your gut, and it can be helpful to take a probiotic

to negate some of that negative effect. So we're going to discuss the actual science on this

topic in this episode. We are also going to discuss whether or not you can have a slow metabolism

and what that actually means. So I see a lot of people claiming that they have a slow metabolism.

And often I think that just means they feel like they gain weight easier than other people around

them. And we're going to talk about what the actual science shows around people having slow metabolisms and the things that

make someone more likely to experience weight gain more easily. The third thing that we're going to

discuss is canned foods and whether or not there are any downsides of eating canned foods and whether or not

you should pay attention to things or avoid them

altogether. So let's go ahead and get into the first topic, which is probiotics during antibiotics.

So should you take a probiotic while you're taking antibiotics? So this seems like it makes sense.

You're taking an antibiotic. You're killing off microbes. Let's take a

probiotic. That's going to help, right? Well, the evidence is less concerned. Well, the science

doesn't really seem to support that. So I'll post some links in the show notes of some recent

studies, but the more recent evidence on this topic that has

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