the Cochrane Collaboration – a respected non-profit organisation that methodically reviews medical studies – has done exactly that. According to their verdicts, probiotics can shorten bouts of infectious diarrhoea, and reduce the risk of diarrhoea brought about by antibiotic treatments. They can also save lives from necrotising enterocolitis – a horrible gut disease that affects premature infants. And there ends the list. Compared to the hype, it’s modest. There is still no clear evidence that probiotics help people with allergies, asthma, eczema, obesity, diabetes, more common types of IBD,
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