There are several considerations when it comes to taking a probiotic—including choosing a strain with scientific backing that offers the benefit you need at the right dose.
Since the inception of probiotics—live microbes used to benefit the health of the host—they’ve been generally regarded as harmless, in part because they don’t actually colonize in the body. But they “can grow, metabolize, and interact” with other members of the microbial community to exert beneficial effects on our health, according to the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP).
That makes probiotics of special interest to someone whose microbiome is perturbed by stress or antibiotic use as they can increase the commensal, or beneficial, bacteria while you are taking them. The microbiome is the collection of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms that live in and on the human body....
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