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Our IBD expert has written about probiotics here.
She recommends probiotics that:
1. need to be refrigerated to keep the active cultures alive
2. have at least 3 billion active cultures per capsule - 5-10 billion per capsule is even better
3. have at least three different bacteria strains included in the formula.
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