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Today we're discussing antibiotics.

These incredible medicines target bacterial infections and save countless lives,

but they don't discriminate,

clean off our good bacteria and impacting our gut health too.

Some experts suggest probiotics as a solution, but do they really help?

And can fermented foods be the answer to reversing the damage to your gut microbiome.

Professor Tim Specter and Dr Will Bolsowich are here to help you understand what to do

to boost your gut health after taking antibiotics.

Fermented foods are basically probiotics,

live microbes, but actually in food, as opposed to in a capsule or in some

synthetic version. So these are things that have been we've had them for thousands

of years in our in our diets and we're talking about the live

cultures, they're in yogurt, they're in cheese, they're in cafe which is

fermented milk, we're talking sourcrough which is fermented cabbage, we're talking

kombuocher which is fermented tea, Kimchi, miso etc etc all these ferments and compared to probiotics they generally have lower doses

but most of them apart from maybe cheese and yogurt have there's many more species many more types

many more diversity of microbes than you'd find in a probatic capsule. So the

average yogurt has maybe three species but in once you get to

cafirs and Kim Cheese and kombuches you can get anything between 20 and 40 different types of micro, mainly

bacteria but also some yeast. My way of thinking is that probiotics

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