How does gut health impact chronic diseases?
It goes on and on, right? And it takes some work sometimes. When people have been on an acid blocker for a long time, it takes some work for us to help wean them off because their body has gotten pretty used to it. Their body wants to make acid, so it's working against the medicine. So when you wean them down, sometimes they get more acid production.
It's called rebound. And it's sort of a trick. You get off it, but it makes you worse, so you feel like you have to get back on it. But it's actually not... True, and you can actually get off it.
Absolutely.
So we do that all the time.
We do it all the time. So re-inoculate, giving all the good prebiotics and probiotics, the good bacteria and all the things that feed the good bacteria. And then the fourth R is repair.
How do you know what probiotics it takes?
Oh, that's a great question. I wanna know, what do you prescribe? Oh my goodness, that's such a, that goes on and on. We could talk about that for the next hour. Yes, it's true. Right?
There's a lot, there's more and more probiotics on the market every day and they all have different roles and different functions. Yeah. And we're just sort of, honestly, I think, you know, we've been doing this forever, but it feels to me like we're at the infancy of this understanding of how to use these in medicine.
Yep.
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