If you have to take an antibiotic, should you take a probiotic, too?

During treatment of lyme disease I followed doctors’ orders (something I generally do unless I have strong reason not to - but I always research the crap out it first, which drives the high priests of corporate medicine bonkers) and the saturation of my system with powerful antibiotics resulted in nasty and uncomfortable alterations of my gut flora.

So I went to the hippy store and bought some of everything they had that was alive. Kombucha, yogurt, all kinds of stuff with strange foreign names… if the label said it contained live cultures, I bought it. Washed it all down with stream water from the living creek that runs through my yard, and my system completely restabilized itself in a week. It was almost as if as though my species had evolved over the course of hundreds of thousands of years to behave that way!

But of course that’s crazy talk. Everybody knows that God created man to drink sterile chlorinated water and eat PVC-packaged products from food factories where all the poorly paid underpeople regularly swab their hands with brand-name jellied alcohols.

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