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Now, let's head to the show.

Let's discuss probiotic side effects.

What they mean, and most importantly, what you can do if you experience a side effect,

because not all reactions, not all side effects are the same.

Some are actually an indication that they're working. Others are an indication that you should

modify the protocol. And within nearly 10 years, I've been using probiotics as something we have

nearly every patient on in our practice. I've developed what I think is the most effective

troubleshooting protocol, if you will, that you can use to circumvent reactions.

Now, regarding probiotics, it would really be a travesty if you jump ship from trialing

probiotics prematurely, which understandably happens in some

cases because people have reaction, they don't know how to account for that reaction, and they just

stop. The thing I find the most helpful and the most hopeful here is there's a long history

of observation of people being healthier who consumed probiotics,

whether it's Henry Bullard's observation in the 1920s that people consuming fermented teas

with Saccharomycese-Belardi probiotic had less cholera-induced diarrhea, or Mechnikov, who discovered that Bulgarian villagers who

consumed fermented dairy had a longer life expectancy.

Again, there is a wealth of observational data from the past showing us that those who

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