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Warpy

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7. Mostly, it's the gut friendly bacteria that go into yogurt and kefir
Sat May 16, 2015, 03:14 PM
May 2015

at this point, but as they learn more about what a healthy gut bacterial colony looks like, we'll probably see prescription gut bugs down the road.

These days, you might as well just enjoy the yogurt.

In other words, the science has only started to be done and so far, it's found that the flora in skinny people are quite different than those in obese people and that's what the health foods industry is responding to, that and hypochondriacs who think the placebo effect works.

About all I'd suggest the health food store "probiotics" for is someone on heavy antibiotics who's getting diarrhea from them and who can't stand the taste of yogurt.

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