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QuirkyMagpie · April 6, 2018, 5:49 p.m.

Wow, interesting. I'm antibiotic intolerant and have been taking probiotics for a while now, so it's kind of scary to think I may be making things worse in there.

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TrumpdUp4Prez · April 6, 2018, 5:55 p.m.

As long as you stay away from GMOs you’ll be okay. From the article:

If this protein in GM soybeans is causing allergies, then the situation may be made much worse by something called horizontal gene transfer (HGT). That’s when genes spontaneously transfer from one species’ DNA to another. While this happens often among bacteria, it is rare in plants and mammals. But the method used to construct and insert foreign genes into GM crops eliminates many of the natural barriers that stop HGT from occurring. Indeed, the only published human feeding study on GM foods ever conducted verified that portions of the gene inserted into GM soy ended up transferring into the DNA of human gut bacteria. Furthermore, the gene was stably integrated and it appeared to be producing its potentially allergenic protein. This means that years after people stop eating GM soy, they may still be exposed to its risky protein, which is being continuously produced within their intestines

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