There is a bit of a gap or disconnect on this particular point in The Peatdom.
Peat has said sterile guts (animal studies) do fine, even better,
until they come up against bad bacteria.
He has said our guts have evolved an equilibrium between good bacteria and bad.
He has said something to the effect, in relation to gut bacteria:
If we are going to be exposed to bacteria,
better to learn to live with them.
He has--sortuv under the radar--said certain antibiotics for the gut
can be useful in certain situations.
And yet:
I've never heard him speak well of probiotics/yogurt/kefir, etc.
In fact, he always seems to speak ill of them.
So...seems to me there's a gap or disconnect there.
I've come to the tentative conclusion--
have filled the gap, in other words, with the notion that--
it makes sense to actively repopulate the gut after antibiotics.
What do you think?
Peat has said sterile guts (animal studies) do fine, even better,
until they come up against bad bacteria.
He has said our guts have evolved an equilibrium between good bacteria and bad.
He has said something to the effect, in relation to gut bacteria:
If we are going to be exposed to bacteria,
better to learn to live with them.
He has--sortuv under the radar--said certain antibiotics for the gut
can be useful in certain situations.
And yet:
I've never heard him speak well of probiotics/yogurt/kefir, etc.
In fact, he always seems to speak ill of them.
So...seems to me there's a gap or disconnect there.
I've come to the tentative conclusion--
have filled the gap, in other words, with the notion that--
it makes sense to actively repopulate the gut after antibiotics.
What do you think?