Gut Health

Probiotics with Antibiotics: How To Support Your Gut And Stay Healthy

Antibiotics can save lives.

But antibiotics can also cause discomfort, disease, and even death. 

From resistant superbugs to life-threatening antibiotic-associated diarrhea, these “wonder” drugs can cause a lot of damage. But... With the right, holistic approach to your health, you can sidestep those outcomes, even if you’ve taken antibiotics for a long period of time.

Before we get into the specifics, let’s learn a little more about what happens when you take an antibiotic...

Antibiotics vs. Probiotics

Probiotics are beneficial bacteria that improve your health. To qualify as a probiotic, these bacteria have to be alive in your gut and deliver proven benefits for your health and wellness. That includes:

And this is just a small sample of the many ways probiotics help you stay strong and healthy.

Antibiotics kill bacteria… and that includes beneficial probiotic bacteria.

That’s why taking antibiotics can make you feel lousy, even as you’re technically recovering from an infection.  And by killing probiotics, antibiotics can do quite a lot of harm.

Antibiotics And The Damage They Do To Your Gut Microbiome

When your gut microbiome (the trillions of bacteria in your gut) is in healthy balance, probiotics vastly outnumber harmful, pathogenic bacteria. And those probiotics do a lot to keep you strong and well. 

However, many challenging health issues occur after taking antibiotics because they kill off the beneficial probiotic bacteria in your gut microbiome.

Even a single dose of antibiotics can wipe out huge populations of beneficial bacteria… but still leave pathogens alive. Those harmful bacteria immediately take advantage, and start to multiply and grow out of control. When pathogens outnumber probiotics in your gut microbiome – a condition called dysbiosis – your health will rapidly go down hill.</