Probiotic intake is not that relevant. Prebiotic intake and looking after the existing microbiome is far more important. You can intake billions of bacteria a day but once you defecate they're all gone and more. The human microbiome is poorly understood even after spending billions in research, it will take many decades to unravel how it works and which is a good combination of bacterial species. Don't believe the hype, prebiotics mean more in scientific studies than they do in reality. Even very powerful probiotics such as Elixir-Probiotic have limited real world effect and they are many times stronger than anything in this product.

If you must take a probiotic then take it in a natural form such as Kefir or other fermented foods. The end user the consumer mostly has little scientific knowledge so are easily swayed by buzz words such as probiotics.

Introducing prebiotics in the diet is cheap and effective at positively modifying the gut microbiome. Recently detrimental gut bacteria have been blamed for onset of Parkinson's disease and cited as a breakthrough. However much research is needed, as I stated earlier we have data that shows evidence of beneficial effect from certain microbial strains, but simply introducing them via supplementation, well there's not enough evidence yet. I would go for the tried and tested method of eating foods that are prebiotics and consuming some fermented foods although this is not strictly necessary. Experimental methods are supplementing Inulin, Binumo GOS and Potato Starch, very experimental method are fecal transplants which have evidence of effect, but as you can guess probably not that desirable for everyone :smiley:

Special K good too

Real men eat whatever the **** they like.

​... I thought it tasted like Dulux too ...
... mind you, I was comfort eating it ...
... I was feeling pretty emulsional at the time ...

... I'll get my coat ... :confused:

agreed. Eating it is hard work and not worth the effort.