Yes, for most people. 84% of 86 people who reported on Probiotics for digestion say it improved. 9% noticed no change and 7% say it got worse. That is about the typical result for digestion (84% across 10 options).
Ranked #4 of 10 for digestion.
“I had treatment resistant depression...What finally worked was...introducing pre/pro biotics for gut health. It has been life changing.”
“I have tried the liquid forms, the refrigerated kinds, and the dual pill versions. I can't say I have ever really noticed a difference.”
“various gut health treatments like (prebiotics and resistant starch and probiotics and ginger and a lot of fruits), which didnt help me.”
“I started taking Colostrum, soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, and probiotics, and completely overhauled my diet to cut processed foods. Just good protein, vegetables, and complex carbs. I noticed significant improvement in under a week.”
Conclusion: Some combinations of probiotics or strains may be beneficial in IBS. However, certainty in the evidence for efficacy by GRADE criteria was low to very low across almost all of our analyses.
Conclusion: In short, probiotics and FMT are effective for managing IBS, with Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus being dominant strains. However, the most effective probiotic combination or strain remains unclear, while prebiotics and synbiotics did not show significant improvement.
Conclusion: Probiotics showed substantial reductions in depression symptoms and moderate reductions in anxiety symptoms. Prebiotics showed a nonsignificant trend toward reducing depression. An adjunctive mental health treatment approach that diagnoses, monitors, and treats the gut microbiome alongside traditional pharmacological treatment holds promise for clinical practice.
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