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10/10/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Your probiotics might not be enough unless you’re also taking PREbiotics, expert warns

A professor of microbiology and pathology at Colorado State University warns that taking probiotics means diddly squat if you don’t supplement them with prebiotics. Ian Orme describes the prevailing assumption that probiotics taken by themselves can improve health as just “dodgy” and unrealistic. He claims that the practice is essentially useless as gastric acid kills […]

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