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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hi, everyone, welcome back. Today,

let's discuss how to best use probiotics, this highly effective tool based upon common questions that you

have asked. We'll cover a number of important how-to questions, including must you change your diet at the same time?

Do you need to rotate probiotics?

Do you have to worry about heat killed versus intact?

What is the best way to take them, generally speaking?

What if you feel worse from a probiotic?

Do you need to avoid lactobacillus probiotics if you have SIBO?

What about fermented food consumption if you have SIBO?

And how can we use probiotics to help reduce medication side effects. A lot here and really excited to offer up what I've

learned over about 10 years of clinical experience regarding how to best use probiotics

and how to troubleshoot. So let's jump into expanding upon how to best use this wonderful tool of probiotics.

There's the old saying, give a man to fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, and he can

eat for his lifetime. I feel that has relevancy here. There's a very, very important concept I want

to equip you with, probably the most important concept, really, as it pertains to probiotics, is when in doubt, the simple answer is

usually correct. And there's this wonderful axiom, rule of thumb, if you will, from Plan Plus online, I wanted to use to help articulate this

concept because it really helps you understand the rule behind how to answer so many questions

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