Prebiotics vs. Probiotics: What You Need to Know | Empowering Midlife Wellness

There’s so much science these days about how important it is to have a healthy gut biome (bacterial population) for optimal health, and real science about how many diseases are caused by dysbiosis (having an unhealthy gut bacterial population). Today I am digging into some common terms that many of us don’t understand, including “pre-biotics” and “probiotics” and whether we need to take them, or if we can find them in our diet. Most importantly, what does the science say about whether these actually help?