What Health Benefits Could Probiotics Have?
Probiotics contain some of the same bacteria that live in our bodies. In this video, HealthMaker and researcher Josephine P. Briggs, MD, discusses how probiotics may help certain diseases and conditions.
Transcript
The NIH funded-- sponsored a very large project called the Microbiome Project.
And the Microbiome Project taught us a lot about the bacteria that live in our bodies.
Probiotics contain some of the same bacteria, like lactobacillus. And there's a fair amount of exciting work suggesting
that modifying the microbiome by ingesting a probiotic
may have impact on disease areas. So this is actively being studied for a variety of conditions, including kidney stones,
including the confusion that develops when people with severe liver disease, including
the very disabling diarrhea that people get after a long course of antibiotics
called c-diff diarrhea. And so that's another area of real excitement now--
supplements
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