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A 20-year-old female asked:

Why is it that probiotics don't work when weather gets warmer? i left pb8 probiotics in my cabinet and they stopped working.

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Dr. Gurmukh Singh
Pathology 51 years experience
See below: Probiotics need live organisms to work as intended. Storing in an unregulated environment may have impaired the viability of the organisms. An other, more likely, explanation is that the probiotics were not the appropriate treatment for the malady you intended to use these for.
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