Paul Saladino· MD
So, here's your your three categorical types. And and if you look at the probiotic literature long enough, you start to see this emerge that most probiotics are not combinations of all the different categorical types, but rather they're either a lactobacillus and bifidobacterium predominated blend. They are a sacroyces polardi, which is actually not a bacteria, it's a fungus. Or they are a soilbased or spore forming. And eventually you see enough studies. So category one there's about 500 trials using some iteration of a lactobacillus and bifidobacterium strain blend. Now they differ slightly from formula to formula but you will also see a number of different formulas showing benefit for IBS, showing benefit for constipation, showing benefit for mood. All of the category one designation. Now again do they have seven strains? Do they have 10 strains? Do they have 15? They vary a little bit in that sense. But if you're looking to simplify this, that's a great point to simplify to that these various iterations of Lactobacillus and Bifroacterium strains can be classified as category one and they all have pretty impressive benefit when you look at the totality of the 500 trials here. Sacchroyces Bolardi, there's about a 100 studies using sacchroyces polardi. And then the new kit on the block popular in the paleo community is your soilbased probiotics. And this group has about 14 clinical trials. There's there's about 20 from Asia using a couple additional strains. So we could even say that there's about 34 total trials but less.