[symlock]

Most antibiotics & modern medicine kills gut flora. It seems gut flora have more to do with proper nutritional absorption preventing the need of drugs to begin with. Consider the termite's inability to digest wood when their gut flora is destroyed.

After all, no one has an aspirin deficiency.

[stevenwoo]

Funny you mention that because yesterday I read that there are people who actually need to take aspirin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/her-d...

Long story, short - sensitivity to aspirin is problem that can be treated with exposure to aspirin in controlled setting to reduce extreme respiratory/allergy symptoms and continued daily aspirin afterwards for maintenance.

[stephengillie]

In the article, the woman is found to be allergic to NSAIDs. Meanwhile, others are prescribed Aspirin as a blood-thinner, to prevent recurrence of stroke.[0]

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/aspirin-heart-attack-...

[stevenwoo]

Yes but the treatment involved getting aspirin under a doctor's supervision to eliminate the sensitivity, unless I misremembered that. Prior to that she get sicker and sicker until she got pneumonia, and then a doctor who happened to be familiar with the aspirin syndrome from recent work elsewhere, suggested that as a diagnosis. Under the aspirin as therapeutic her life significantly improved.

[cozzyd]

Sure but I'm getting at a different connection. In this particular study, where both groups are presumably taking antipsychotics, the probiotics might increase the effectiveness of the medicine they are already taking.