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number6 @feddit.nl

2y ago

Pro-biotic and anti-biotic are both considered good things.

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It really depends on the biotic.
- Yeah. Some microbes you can't live without. Some microbes, you can't live with.
  
  Microbes. Can't live with em, can't live without em.
  
  And some microbes you can't live without, but you also can't live with too many of them.

Flammable and inflammable are both easily ignited.
- Regardless, I stay away from both irregardless.
- They’re called antiautonyms! Or, contranyms.
- What a country!
- You definitely should play with matches or you definitely shouldn't
  
  You should defiantly play with matches

So are humidifiers and dehumidifiers
- That's why I have both right next to each other.
  
  The Goldilocks zone of energy consumption
- Or freezers and heaters.

It's generally a good idea to take some probiotic after antibiotic treatment.
- yeah, getting some good biotics after killing the bad biotics!
  
  The problem with antibiotics is they kill the goodbiotics too. They just love killin.
- Is it though? Don’t most probiotics just get destroyed by stomach acid?
  Honestly if your going to take anything following a strong round of antibiotics, it’d be a fecal-matter transfusion, not oral probiotics.
  
  No. The biggest issue is antibiotic causing a decrease in biodiversity, and the new probiotic being unable to populate due to the advantage of the existing bacteria occupying the sacks that make them able to colonize.
  Your best bet is a rigorous and never ending probiotic rich diet. I think you are barely even making progress then as well.
  
  "Don’t most probiotics just get destroyed by stomach acid?"
  No. That's why eating probiotic food helps diversify your gut microbiome.
  
  That's why I occasionally put yogurt in my butt.
- For best results, take one antibiotic concurrently with every probiotic food/drink!

I am pro some biotics, and anti other biotics. The duality of man.
- Especially when you get sick and have to take antibiotics .... I take a few more probiotics to replace all the biotics that got wiped away.

I just think biotics have a right to choose. Which is why I'm pro-biotic.
I am also a yogurt.
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  Username checks out.

Not from the bacteria's perspective

Like a light switch. Sometimes you want that light on, other times you want it off. Both positions of the switch are features.

I like to lock them in a closed container together and let them fight it out.
- This is a basic biology class demonstration
- I'm the closed container.
  
  You're very sick now, aren't you?

I haven't really decided where I stand on biotic.
- Biotic swing vote
- It’s like water. Drink the right water or you’ll die. Drink the wrong water and you’ll die.

And then there are prebiotics, but what's a postbiotic?
- vinegar maybe?
  
  Poop

"Probiotic" mostly refers to substances like yogurt that actually contain live beneficial microbes.
"Antibiotic" mostly refers to substances that are based on the ones produced by one microbe (like a Penicillium mold) to attack a different microbe (like an infectious bacterium).
So, both involve the action of microbes to help you; the difference is that one you want to cultivate in your guts, and the other you want to help fight off other microbes.

Not in Mass Effect!

Would that make prebiotics neutral since they're on the fence?

It's it obvious? Just lovehate the biotics

and these same scientists tell us vaccines are safe

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