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Resources for healthcare professionals

Keeping you informed about the latest in probiotics research and education.

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Helping to keep you informed about the latest in probiotics health and wellness research.

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Professionals

General health

Could probiotics help those with autism?

Kerry Beeson

BSc (Nut. Med.) Nutritional Therapist

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Professionals

Gut health

A look at zonulin and leaky gut syndrome

Kathy Wheddon

Nutritional Therapist DipION

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Professionals

General health

Could probiotics help with oral thrush?

Kathy Wheddon

Nutritional Therapist DipION

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Professionals

Gut health

C. difficile and Probiotics

Louise Mason

BA Hons, Dip CNM Nutritional Therapist, Dip CNM Naturopath, mANP

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Professionals

General health

Do probiotics help with eczema?

Dr Aisling Dwyer

MB BCh BAO (Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics), MSc (Personalised Nutrition)

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Professionals

General health

Probiotics and Lyme Disease

Naomi Osun

Registered nutritionist, ANutr

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Professionals

Gut health

Can milk cause constipation?

Ben Hook

BSc (Hons) Nutrition ANutr – Nutritionist

Professionals

General health

Probiotics for Obesity

Helen Morton

MSc, BSc (Hons), Nutritional Therapist DipION

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Professionals

Gut health

Probiotics and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

Dr Aisling Dwyer

MB BCh BAO (Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics), MSc (Personalised Nutrition)

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Probiotics Database

A non-commercial project that is intended as an informative, educational tool for healthcare professionals, health journalists, and those with a particular interest in probiotics.

The probiotic strains included on the database are not limited to those in the Optibac Probiotics range but have rather been independently identified by our team of nutritional therapists, as the most researched probiotic strains in the world. The strains have been chosen by both quantity of research behind them, but mainly by the quality of the research. By this we refer to the design of the studies, significance of the results, and of course population size studied.

View the Probiotics Database

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