Antibiotics. Probiotics. Prebiotics. Synbiotics. Postbiotics. Oh my! Who knew there were so many “biotics”?

You may have heard of some of these terms, but not all. Let’s dig in with antibiotics, which we discussed in more detail last week. As a brief recap, an antibiotic is a powerful medicine used to fight bacterial infections.

Anti = against

An antibiotic kills bacteria or keeps them from reproducing.

This is a good thing if you have harmful bacteria (i.e., bacterial illness, UTI, overgrowth, etc.) that should not be in your body. But an antibiotic doesn’t know the difference between “helpfu...