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.
However, in the other half of the individuals, the microbiome was much more welcoming, and when they were eating the probiotics, the probiotics at least temporarily were able to colonize along their guts. And in these individuals, we saw that these exogenous microbes indeed had quite significant impacts on our measurements of human responsiveness at least in the gut.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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A probiotic intervention is one which involves the supplementation of exogenous microbes that we hope would be welcomed by our indigenous microbiome and impact our body in a favorable manner.