Probiotics May Protect From Signs of Early Cognitive Decline…

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTime to pay that off: a clinical trial suggests probiotics may help protect against early signs of cognitive decline, and ScienceAlert says the gut really is the body's second brain.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe probiotic is code-named KL-P301, it has three bacterial strains, and people took it as a powder, alone or stirred into water.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOf one hundred people originally randomized, forty finished the twenty-four weeks on the probiotic and forty-seven finished on the placebo.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the study does not show that probiotics directly reduce tau tangles in the brain.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAn earlier trial in older adults with mild cognitive impairment found benefits too, but researchers call that evidence limited.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLimited.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo my gut may be smarter than I am, and it still lost the argument with that breakfast burrito. Rex, what have you got?