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Probiotics labelled 'quite useless' (AMP link)
A group of scientists in Israel claim foods that are packed with good bacteria - called probiotics - are almost useless.
[...] The team at the Weizmann Institute of Science made their own probiotic cocktail using 11 common good bacteria including strains of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria. It was given to 25 healthy volunteers for a month. They were then sedated and samples were surgically taken from multiple places in the stomach and small and large intestines.
The researchers were looking to see where bacteria successfully colonised and whether they led to any changes in the activity of the gut. The results in the journal Cell [open, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.041], showed in half of cases the good bacteria went in the mouth and straight out the other end. In the rest, they lingered briefly before being crowded out by our existing microbes.
[...] The research group also looked at the impact of probiotics after a course of antibiotics, which wipe out both good and bad bacteria. Their trial on 46 people, also in the journal Cell [open, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.08.047], showed it led to delays in the normal healthy bacteria re-establishing themselves.
Dr Elinav added: "Contrary to the current dogma that probiotics are harmless and benefit everyone, these results reveal a new potential adverse side effect of probiotic use with antibiotics that might even bring long-term consequences."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 07 2018, @05:57PM
sheesh, people now-a-days; it's all "me! me! me!".
ever consider what happens after you happily made that thing the brown-ice-cream emoji is based on?
what would totally interest me is how the "septic tank" or "waste water treatment plant" handles the patients in the study.
they should have let them poop into 20 different septic tanks and see how it develops.
how much does it smell? does the volume only increase or does it continuously collapse? how "clean" is the runoff-water of the septic tank etc. etc.
i guess some people don't CARE where their waste goes and what happens to it ...
on a side note: NATTO makes for really solid poop :] and kimchi (sauerkraut with chilli powder) supposedly has more vitamin C AFTER fermentation then before? where did it come from? also, bread is made with yeast. they probably DIE in the baking process and are DIGESTED and RESORBED when eating bread, non?