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So you have to take antibiotics. How do you repair your microbiome?

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If your answer was "probiotics"...think again.

If there’s one message that I hope has come through loud and clear from this blog so far, it’s: And when I say “absolutely have to”, I don’t mean for things like “my throat’s been sore for a whole four days” or “I ate some buffalo chicken pizza that sat out all night, and now I’ve got diarrhea”. These are things that can typically be managed by rest, good nutritious food, tea, and time. For minor GI emergencies, I keep a bottle of a Japanese medication called seirogan in the apothecary, which is plenty effective for things like traveler’s diarrhea.1 But say you get an STD. It happens to…

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