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Bacteria
SciShow Tangents
The History of Prebiotics
Smey 745 on YouTube asks, what's the difference between pre and probiotics? Can you have too many of one and not enough of another? Never heard of prebiotics in my life? Yeah. That's the newer one. Probiotic is a little bit of a weird thing to say because it's not. The word probiotic was first used in 1965 to describe these substances, secreted by one microorganism to stimulate the growth of another. But the prebiotics is the thing that's good for the bacteria. And I don't think you can really eat them out of balance. As far as I know, there's probably a lot of research into like
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