Bacterial Therapy: Modulation of the Microbiome With Dr. Bernat Olle
Business Of Biotech
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The Commercial Hype Around Probiotics Helps or Hurts Your Cause
There's sort of this commercial stigma and that might be a word that's too strong. The hard evidence supporting the use of over-the-counter probiotics is very, very weak in the majority of areas where benefits are being claimed. These are bacteria that have often been isolated from dairy products like milk or at best from the infant gut. If you cannot invade and colonize that ecosystem, it's unlikely there's going to be a meaningful therapeutic effect.
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