Most probiotic supplements are like flowers in a vase: they provide short-term benefits but don't permanently colonize your gut. The speakers compare the difficulty of changing this assumption to how long it took ships to adopt citrus to prevent scurvy.
say that probiotics are like flowers in a vase, right? They're beautiful, they smell good, they give you the psychology of pretty— I don't know if they smell good.
Maybe it depends on your sense of smell.
And then you have your flower garden that you create on your own. So the problem is that the flowers in the vase, after a couple of days, they wilt and die. That's literally what happens to probiotics. They're just transient, right? So they don't have that engrafting or growing ability. So your analogies are right up the alley of the way we even educate practitioners because This is a completely novel thing, right? You're completely shifting the paradigm and saying, hey, you know, probiotics as a standard rule work, but they're not permanent. And that's very hard sometimes for people to, to take that next step, right? It's almost like, hey, limes prevent scurvy. Takes 200 years before we start eating lemons on ships. You know what I mean? I hope it doesn't take that long, but that's kind of the level of shifting of paradigm that you're talking about.
