The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
I've read a few studies with a probiotic called VSL 3 which I use myself. I definitely use it if I have to take our kids over a round of antibiotics but it's got like 450 billion bacteria which is like 10 times more than anything else in the market.
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But there is a probiotic out there that I've seen at least two dozen publications including clinical trials in humans and then there's more mechanistic studies in animals using VSL number three. It's called, they're sachets and they have 450 billion probiotics per sachet and they have a mixture of lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium and some other ones but showing efficacy in treating IBS, Crohn's.