The People's Pharmacy® with Joe and Terry Graedon

627 Probiotics for Health

Radio Shows March 31, 2007

We host huge numbers of bacteria in our bodies—so many, in fact, that there are more bacterial cells than human cells in each of us. What are those bacteria doing there, and what happens when our personal ecological systems get disrupted? We’ll learn how probiotics can help re-establish a beneficial balance.

Guests: Kelly Karpa, R Ph, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She is author of Elsevier’s Integrated Pharmacology and Bacteria for Breakfast: Probiotics for Good Health.

Gerald Callahan, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Immunology and the Public Understanding of Science, with appointments in the departments of Pathology and English at Colorado State University. He has written many books, including Infection: The Uninvited Universe.