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by CrHn3 843 days ago
This is another positive results using human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), which I'd consider a prebiotic https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S193131282...

They used EVC001, a robust strain of B. infantis that came out of UC Davis research, and HMOs, which are a symbiotic that it can metabolize into short chain fatty acids, to achieve reversible engraftment without the use of antibiotics. The insurance hypothesis has kind of conflated diversity with function, but it could be possible to have a stable microbiome with less diversity but high function using symbiotics and strains we have identified as contributing to improved function [1].

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171047/