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

There is no 'business of skeptical criticisms of science' because
skeptical criticism is the the norm for science.

On Feb 29, 8:19 am, naiverahim <rahim.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @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.
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> 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.
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> rahim
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> On Feb 29, 9:46 am, CodonAUG <elsbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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