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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Welcome back. Today, let's discuss

more research on probiotics, and in this case, how probiotics can improve immune system function,

oxidative stress, and even asthma and allergies as kind of

subsets of inflammation, probiotics for kids, acute diarrhea, newborn health, and also respiratory

infections in children. And then finally finish our discussion with probiotics for gut health, the latest updates on

IBS, constipation, and age pylori.

And I'm hoping by now it's becoming really evident that we keep a close watch on a pretty

impressive and robust stream of research that's being published.

And this progressively

informs our recommendations and hopefully is helping you fine-tune the use of probiotic

either supplementation or, as an aside, consumption of food. Most all of these studies actually

today are on supplements. But don't let the fact that there is a fairly impressive body of data with supplements lead you to forget to make fermented and probiotic-rich foods a routine part of your diet.

Okay, so let's jump in, probiotics and immune health, inflammation, and allergy.

The first study here I would love to share with you.

And actually, this is quite fascinating because this study looked at oxidative stress, kind of a way of

saying inflammation, in healthy individuals, randomized control trial, or I'm sorry, a metanalysis

of nine randomized control trials. So providing us a good overview of across, again, nine trials, what is the aggregate

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