My doctor recommended I take a probiotic after a round of antibiotics that is 100 million CFU whereas many yogurts advertise billions of CFU. Why is that the case?
In: Biology
It generally doesn’t matter how many millions or billions of bacteria there are in a pill or yogurt. Most important are the different strains of bacteria. Better pro and pre biotics advertise the amountof strains or cultures. Which allows your gut to recover faster.
For example if you have a billion bacteria with 1 culture, it’s not very effective for a good gut health balance. But a million bacteria with 8, 15, 20 cultures is more effective than one with more.
The bacteria count does help with the spreading of the bacteria, but it’s not as much important when there are millions or billions of them.
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