In this episode, Dr. Megan Sprinkle and Dr. Mary Cope talk with Dr. Steve Lerner, a Senior Scientific Advisor at Chr. Hansen.  Topics they discuss include what probiotics are, best practices for giving your pet probiotics, and the future of probiotic research.

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Show Notes

(01:02) How Dr. Steve fell in love with probiotics

(02:31)  What exactly are probiotics?

(05:04)  How probiotics help our digestive system

(08:29)  Differences in probiotics made Easy

(11:25)  How they choose the best probiotics for a particular purpose

(13:45)  Dried versus wet versus refrigerated: What works best?

(17:37)  How to find the right probiotic for your pet

(19:50)  What probiotics can do for your pets

(24:13)  Probiotics: Is there a difference between people and pets?

(27:58)  Can you consume too many probiotics?

(38:04)  The best way to give your pets probiotics

(42:01)  What the future holds for probiotic research

(47:19)  How technology changes so quickly