After listening to your most recent podcast regarding the studies on effect of probiotics after and during antibiotics, should you change your recommendations for patients? If so, what do you suggest in the timeframe in which to avoid them? Do these include other fermented foods such as yogurt and kefir?

Chris: I haven’t yet changed my recommendations, but I’ve been thinking a lot about it. I would like to see the results replicated in at least another context, and I’d like to see them replicated with a different antibiotic other than Cipro because Cipro is such a carpet bomb for the gut flora, such a broad-spectrum antibiotic. I think there’s going to be some nuance here, and I’m just concerned about making a blanket recommendation based on the results of one study, so at the moment, we haven’t changed our recommendations, but it’s something we continue to evaluate.