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Hi, everyone, this is Dr. Rucho, and let's discuss why probiotics are important and why they seem to offer the level of benefit that they do.

There's a number of factors, really, in modern day, some good, some bad, that lead to the underlying situation wherein

probiotics seem to offer benefit.

Hi everyone, this is after a show, and let's discuss why probiotics are important.

In an ideal world, we wouldn't need probiotics. However, today, there are a number of factors

that congeal to create a situation in which probiotics do seem to offer benefit for many.

And let's discuss the lead-up, creating the factors in your gut and in the environment, that create the beneficial effect that probiotics can lead to.

And I'll put a diagram up here on the screen to kind of depict

what we'll talk through right now. Overuse of antibiotics is certainly one factor that does not

help. Now, I do feel that antibiotics are given kind of a bad rap. And so we should make a few

clarifying remarks. The earlier in life

antibiotics are used, the more detrimental they tend to be. And the adult microbiota or the world

of bacteria in the digestive tract of adults seems to be a bit more impervious to perturbations

from antibiotics. Now, with children and with infants,

there is a time and a place for anthobiotics, so we want to be very careful to use them when

needed, but also not to be overly using them. And I do kind of outline some guidelines for this

and healthy, got healthy

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