HOTB 182: Probiotics and prebiotics: What's the difference?
Healing Outside The Box
English - July 25, 2018 00:03 - 15 minutes - 11.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNutrition Health & Fitness Alternative Health foodsafety healthyeating preventativenutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We throw around the terms probiotics and prebiotics like they are the yin and yang of food microorganisms. Actually, they are complementary but not similar or opposites. In this episode, I define the terms and talk about how we can best utilize what we currently know about the positive effects of both of them, working together.
Your G.I. tract will thank you.
I mentioned a small NIH study that examines the health benefits of combining several strands of beneficial bacteria. It can be found here.
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