Bacteria Equals Big Bucks

There is money on the table. Probiotics are the next, new, hot, crankin’, market, wonder product.

But there are many forms of probiotics (foods with bacteria that are healthy for your gut).

1. Those foods that have been fermented over time.
2. Those foods that have been sterilized, and then have had bacteria added back to them.
3. Probiotic pills.

We know that the best source of vitamins are from your food. And we also now know that vitamin supplements can be harmful, or irrelevant, to improving your health. But we didn’t figure that out until after we had been advised to take vitamin pills … for over 40 years.

So now probiotics are the newest new thing, and we will certainly be approached by everyone on the planet to buy their “product”. But is it good for you to eat the probiotic foods outside of the context of real foods?

Rather than eat the pills, the most conservative approach would be to stick with food, and wait for the next 40 years of studies to reveal whether the artificial form of the probiotics are actually healthy for you.

Read the summary here.