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No Evidence To Support Probiotics For Gut Microbiota Recovery After Antibiotics

 
• By David Ridley

It is well established that antibiotics disrupt the human gut microbiome, but what is not so well established is the use of probiotics to restore it, find the authors of a recently published scientific literature review.

Can the gut microbiota be restored by taking probiotics? • Source: Shutterstock

Current scientific evidence does not support the use of probiotic supplements for restoring the gut microbiota after taking antibiotics, finds a recently published literature review.

However, there does seem to be evidence that certain probiotics might prevent side effects such as diarrhea, according to an article published in

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