Why is plain yogurt considered good for digestion? What’s it doing down there?

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Why is plain yogurt considered good for digestion? What’s it doing down there?

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Your stomach contains helpful bacteria, which help break down foods that would otherwise be indigestible.
Yogurt happens to naturally contain some of those helpful bacteria, which are called cultures.

Eating the yogurt puts the good bacteria from the yogurt into your stomach, where it can help break down foods that you can’t.

This is why people who are on antibiotics are supposed to eat yogurt; taking antibiotics hurts the good bacteria in your stomach, and eating cultured yogurt helps replenish them.