Dead and intermediate cells in probiotic supplements function as postbiotics.

“there's a different tool that can be used called flow cytometry — and essentially what you do is you take your capsule you put it into this flow cytometer and what it pops out it's readout is live cells dead cells and kind of in between cells it's based on a you know staining of the membrane and so it tells you you know which of these cells is viable like the membrane is really intact which of them have a compromised membrane and which ones are kind of somewhere in between — and now you know exactly what's in your pill because even if you could have the same number of live cells it turns out that those dead cells and those in between cells they actually have a role to play they have a function in there so these so-called postbiotics that's what those guys are and so you're missing you don't really know what's in your pill unless you're using Flow cytometry versus Colony forming units”

“it turns out that those dead cells and those in between cells they actually have a role to play they have a function in there so these so-called postbiotics that's what those guys are”