Our Microbes and Our Health
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The Effects of Prebiotics on Travellers Diarrhea
A probiotic is the use of living microbes in foods or drinks and actually probiotic in Greek means for life. A prebiotic is more like a food for the positive or the beneficial ones which are already in the ecosystem in the microbiome. So they try to do the same thing improve the composition and activity of the microbiome but in slightly different ways. One plays with the ecosystem as it is and one adds to it so prebiotic changes what's in there a probiotic tries to add to it.
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