An ADAPT student has been using Diagnostic Solutions Labs stool testing for the last few months, and they’ve noticed the majority of patients who took this test come back with very low to low on Lactobacillus. Is this a quintessence or people who have gut dysbiosis tend to be low on Lactobacillus, and what’s the treatment for it?

Chris Kresser:  Certainly people with dysbiosis tend to be low on Lactobacillus because Lactobacillus along with Bifido bacteria comprise 30 trillion of the 100 trillion bacteria in our gut, so it’s a very important keystone species and the treatment is—Lactobacillus-based probiotics can be helpful in that situation depending on the person but also prebiotics that support the growth of Lactobacillus that’s already there is important, and we’re going to be talking about that in the probiotic and prebiotic section.