nutritional medicine

nutritional medicine,

n 1. use of food and nutrition as a medical approach.
2. supplementation of diet with nutrients, intermediary metabolic products, and probiotics to prevent illness and improve health and heal-ing. See also probiotic.

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Patient discussion about nutritional medicine.

Q. I wish to know whether consumption of probiotics in the form of medicine will have any side effects. I wish to know whether consumption of probiotics in the form of medicine will have any side effects. I wish to know the probable causes that could reduce them in gut?

A. Taking probiotics in pill form might have some side effect especially if taken in excess may lead to some gut infections. You may also feel formation of gas in stomach. Taking on antibiotics or consumption of any toxic food can reduce the probiotics in the guts.