Health Check: should healthy people take probiotic supplements?
- Written by Chris Irwin, Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Allied Health Sciences, Griffith University
If you eat a healthy diet, it's probably not worth it.Shutterstock/Koldunov Alexey
A visit to the supermarket these days can feel more like walking through a pharmacy, with an ever-expanding range of milks, yoghurts, pills, powders and speciality foods promoting their “probiotic” prowess.
Advocates of probiotics have hailed them as the...
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