[DIYbio] Re: Designer Probiotics. Anyone interested in this?

@codonAUG Dr. Crislip, the author of the article, seems to be in the
business of skeptical criticisms of science and probably has something
to say about everything in medicine. as with any therapeutic
approaches, he makes some valid point regarding the safety and
potential risks associated with probiotics and the lack of scientific
evidence supporting some of the health claims made by those who are in
the business of manufacturing and selling probiotics, which are hardly
regualted if marketed as dietary supplements.

but what i think he fails to admit, unsurprisingly, is the potential
benefits of probiotics if studied and engineered adequately to deliver
health benefits with reduced short- and long-term side effects. this
is why we do science to enable ultimately such capacities. the gut is
a complex system that is largely responsible for regulating what goes
into our bloodstream/body. the ability to engineer this system to
afford health benefits has a broad application in health and medicine
and can potentially lead to management of a host of health problems.

rahim

On Feb 29, 9:46 am, CodonAUG <elsbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a bit wary of probiotic hype.  But science based medicine does a
> better job than I do in explaining.http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/probiotics/

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