Ever wondered about what probiotics really do for pets?

[Adam W]

Here’s a cool blog post on probiotics:
http://www.bdwbio.com/Blog/Probiotics_And_What_They_Do_For_Animals

And another one on the mechanisms behind probiotics:
http://www.bdwbio.com/Blog/How_Do_Probiotics_Actually_Work

Some (many…most?) supplements are bogus, especially those for pets. There’s an increasing amount of evidence that probiotics don’t fall in this category. However, any probiotic product you buy needs to have enough colony forming units (CFU) to be helpful. There is some debate about whether multiple strains are helpful, but the reality is that most products which list multiple strains really don’t have enough CFU of most of them to matter at all anyway.

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