This Fact About Probiotics MIGHT SURPRISE You

12 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains that many probiotic strains exert effects beyond their direct bacterial activity. Once they reach the gut, they can engage in communication with other members of the microbiome or directly with gut epithelial cells, influencing host physiology in ways that are not the primary function of the introduced bacteria. The discussion then broadens to describe the human gastrointestinal microbiome, noting that it contains trillions of beneficial bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, with Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium species being the two dominant bacterial groups commonly targeted by probiotic products.

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A lot of probiotics actually do non-bacterial things or adjacent bacterial things when they get in your gut. So what that means is that they can get down there and they can actually have communication either with other microbiome agents or your gut cells. That is really not the primary function of that bacteria that you're using. So you might say, well, what, what do humans mostly use? We have, you know, trillions of good bacteria and even some viruses and other stuff in our GI The 2 big species, if you look at human microflora, are Lactobacillus species, of which there's a lot of different subspecies, and Bifidobacterium species or