Stress and the Microbiome – Lifestyle Medicine
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  • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    The real “probiotics” are fermented foods and yes they do. The supplements you can buy… are not evaluated or regulated in any way, corpos can and do try to charge as much as they can for as little as possible. Even with the best intentions supplements are a kinda silly approach vs just eating living food. Yogurt gets recommended the most cause it doesn’t have the salt/sugar a lot of fermentation calls for, kimchi and kombucha also great imo

    Separate take but I think just being a little dirtier is good for ya too. Eat stuff you dropped/left out on the counter, get a little queasy, emerge victorious. Every time you conquer a little stomach bug without antibiotics your power will grow until you are strong enough to wander the city picking at strangers leftovers

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      3 days ago

      Its less about developing immunity and more about promoting the beneficial bacteria and having less harmful bacteria.

      Poor diets promote bad bacteria. Probiotic and probiotic containing diets promote the good. Certainly having good immunity is beneficial, but having the beneficial bacteria promote better immunity before any toxins or infections are introduced.