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by im3w1l 2012 days ago
The other year they were saying autism was related to the microbiome. That got too-good-to-be-true alarm bells ringing in my head for sure.
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There is a lot of evidence it is related, however that's not the same thing of course as being able to modulate symptoms via the microbiome (that one poop transplant study was extremely preliminary). I think the jury is still out on that latter idea, but current probiotics surely have no effect. I hope that as this line of research continues industry will adapt and we will start to see probiotics that are A) better at actually populating the gut and B) personalized.
That research is still ongoing and getting funded, eg https://science.oregonstate.edu/IMPACT/2019/05/microbiologis...