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Many people take probiotics in the hopes that it will help reduce gastrointestinal struggles with excessive gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation and other common complaints. Sometimes they help, sometimes they don’t. But why? Just what are probiotics and how are they created?

In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s discuss the ups and downs of commercial probiotics, why they are really little more than haphazard collections of microbes assembled without rhyme or reason. Then let’s discuss how you can do better than taking some random commercial probiotic off the shelf.

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Chapters

1. What's better than probiotics? (00:00:00)

2. The Problem With Probiotics (00:00:06)

3. What Probiotics Really Are (00:00:52)

4. Dose Matters More Than Labels (00:02:44)

5. The Myth Of Mixed Microbe Formulas (00:05:15)

6. Risks, Gimmicks, And Marketing Hype (00:06:35)

7. A Better Path: Fermented Microbes (00:09:32)

8. Targeting SIBO With Specific Strains (00:12:13)

9. Fermented Foods As Microbe Catalysts (00:15:08)

10. Feed The Microbiome With Smart Fibers (00:17:24)

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