Thank you for the Perplexity.ai answers. As expected, it makes assessments on probiotics based on the nutrition echo chamber, which is essentially marketing based on hype and pseudo science.
Perplexity itself recognizes all the supposed health benefits are just claims by using conditionals like “can, may, might”.
Ask it if any of those claims are backed up by good level of confidence data such as physiological studies or randomized trials on big samples or how the purported efficacy is evaluated and you’ll see how bad the science is.
Ask it why probiotics are supposed to colonize the digestive tract yet must be taken again and again and it will admit there is incoherence and lack of logic.
The role of bacteria in digestion and over all health has only become prominant in the last decade.
Perhaps its all based on hype.
So how do you evaluate the role of bacteria in digestion and overall health.