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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Let's discuss the four

main benefits of probiotics and how supplementing with probiotics can improve seabone dysbiosis,

leaky gut, then have the spillover benefit to the brain, reducing brain inflammation, improving cognition, and also improving mood and even the stress response.

And finally, equip you with a protocol you can use at home.

Okay, so one of the most important benefits of probiotics is their ability to release these antimicrobial peptides.

But there's an interesting backstory that we took up really quick to help us appreciate the longstanding impact of probiotics on health.

Now, if we go back to the early 20th century, a Russian researcher, Eli Mechnikov,

observed that people living in a certain town in Bulgaria, a village town in the mountains,

lived longer and were healthier than those around them. And he postulated it was due to the consumption of fermented milk.

And the fermentation unintentionally was leading to health benefits in part because the fermentation

will extend shelf life, but it does it by releasing antimicrobial peptides that it's almost

similar to pasteurization in the sense that it'll prevent bacteria from building up and leading to

overgrowth of unsavory things that can spoil in this case the milk. But Mechnikov didn't know exactly what was doing that.

A different scientist Stamen Grigorov, a tough last name, identified lactobacillus in the milk,

and then Mechnikov termed this bacteria lactobacillus bulgaricus, one of the first

probiotics discovered. And you'll see in many modern day formulas, this lactobacilus bulgaricus

due to this Bulgarian village it was discovered in. And when we understand how powerfully the antimicrobial substances by fermentation are

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