Probiotics are living organisms, prebiotics are their food, and postbiotics are substances they produce.

“essentially you know the the the microbiome when we talk about is all these you know bacterial and and and yeast strains that's the probiotic so the probiotic is the living organism itself Prebiotic is the food that feeds those organisms so we talked about you know fibers and inulin and and polyphenols and things like that those are prebiotics so prebiotics are the food the probiotic is the organism itself self and then what these organisms produce or what they secrete is called now being called the postbiotic”