There are several considerations when it comes to taking a probiotic—including choosing a strain proven to offer the benefit that you need at the right dose.
The idea that we should eat live microbes for health benefits is still relatively new, especially in terms of specific disease treatments. These beneficial microbes—probiotics—rarely colonize in the body, but they “can grow, metabolize, and interact” with other members of the microbial community to exert beneficial effects on our health, according to the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics.
