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Why taking probiotics with antibiotics might reduce effectiveness

I am taking antibiotics and probiotics at the same time because I want to protect my gut, but I just read this might cancel out the antibiotic.

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The desire to minimize pharmaceutical harm can inadvertently undermine pharmaceutical benefit.

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