Friendly Bacteria

[andygates]

As reported on the Beeb, a small study of long-distance runners shows that probiotics reduce the number of reported sick days.  It's not clear whether the effect is on endurance athletes (bolstering a stressed immune system) or on skinny people (normalising an unusual gut flora) -- but as a walking sicknote who runs and is planning on doing a fair few long things this year, I'm probably going to give it a try.

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We eat a lot of yoghurt.

Frood is skinny. I'm an endurance type (not skinny!)

Frood gets sick more often from bugs than I do. I get sick more often from skeleto-muscular problems than he does.