Popular gut probiotic completely craps out in randomized controlled trial
If you're familiar with the history of Activia, you may not be surprised.
@arstechnica best headline this week 
@arstechnica @Koetsie onzin om te kopen dus! (Deed ik ook nog nooit)
@arstechnica Increasing dietary fiber, on the other hand, has demonstrable benefits to regularity. Easy and effective
https://cbi.nlm.nih.gov/35816465/
@liquor_american @arstechnica I continue to be baffled why people turn to pills for assistance with things that can be improved by just changing their diet a little.
@mlanger @liquor_american @arstechnica
Same! My guess is it’s human nature to be resistant to change + the tendency to do as little work as possible to get the wanted results. Buying/taking pills is so much easier than changing a diet, even just a little. Especially when so many of us have the diets we do out of a lifetime of habits ingrained in us from an early age.
And then there’s my grandma, who worked in a pharmacy and thought there was a pill or medication for every ailment.
@mlanger @liquor_american @arstechnica
Read about lipedema
@arstechnica FWIW, I’ve never eaten or taken probiotics with hopes of restoring regularity as much as possibly avoiding inflammation.
This is why people who know what they are talking about are all in on Prebiotics.
@arstechnica no shit!