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Show: October 25, 2009:
- H1N1 Flu Arrives in Indiana
- Neuroticism and Premature Death
- Patients Reading Physician's Notes
- Dr. Marie Savage on Probiotics
- Acai Berries: Health Food Hype
- Living with HIV/AIDS, Part 2
- Doc Chat: The Rorschach Test
- View all topics for the week
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Dr. Marie Savage on Probiotics
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Air date: October 25, 2009
Host: Barbara Lewis
Interview: Marie Savard, MD
Medical Contributor to ABC News
Probiotics are microorganisms, including so-called "good bacteria" found in the human gut. In the gut they are believed by many to be helpful in digestion.
Recently Sound Medicine's Barbara Lewis asked ABC Medical Contributor Dr. Marie Savard what she thinks about probiotics.
Additional Resources:
- Get specifics on probiotics from the Wikipedia.
- And more in this probiotics fact sheet from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
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