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Why Probiotics Do Not Work
Probiotics are single microbes, single bacterial strains or fungal strains that we put into a pill and we swallow it. And just because that microbe happens to have some beneficial effect on its own in a petri dish, it does not survive in your gut biome. So when we take probiotics, it's just passing right through our gut. It doesn't stay there and doesn't change anything. The reason fecal microbeum, fecal transplants work is because you're taking the whole microbiome from someone else's gut and you're putting it in your gut. Your gut becomes the rain forest of someone Else's gut. That's what we're going to know. There