NSAS Idea Suggestion #15 - Our Savior Yoghurt

In this series I propose daily ideas for new members who are interested in becoming #steemstem authors.

NSAS: New STEM Authors Support

I will post an idea a dayish (it is the goal to post daily, but again real life>steemit for now). With this idea I will include a short description about aspects you may be interested in. If you read this idea proposal, and you like it, and you want to write about it:

Go to the comments and write: "I, username, claim this idea"

Obviously "username" is where you write your own username. This is so that I know who is interested in @steemstem and science in general and I am always looking for a good read. This is honor system stuff, so please respect someone claiming an idea. Again, this is just the first step towards writing a good science post. There is more to it. Do your research, use scientific sources and try to use some proper language and attractive design.
This series will have their own hashtag #nsas, so that you can go back and sort through some of the ideas I have shared and what people made out of it. If you decide to use the idea I propose, please also include #nsas on your posts so that I can have a look at it and maybe get you connected in the steemstem group.
Please also visit @steemstem on steemit as well as on Discord. Follow the guidelines and appreciate the community. That means engage, upvote and comment until your fingers bleed.

For some of us, the picture above symbolizes health. Berries, granola and probiotic yoghurt. Everybody who is older than 10 years has heard some good-looking mum actor on TV saying that this particular yoghurt which they are lustfully slurping of a spoon, is not just yummy, but also healthy. Do you feel bloated? Eat yoghurt. Do you get sick sometimes? Eat yoghurt and you will never die.
Of course, this is a little bit exaggerated. But companies have claimed health benefits from probiotics for quite a while. They still do in the US, but Europe diallowed it. I have done some research into this topic and I found that many of the claims are bogus (found in clinical studies). I have written a similar post three months ago, but focused on two yoghurt drink producers, Yakult and Activia. This post This Yogurt Will Save Your Life! Or.....Maybe Not? will help you a lot with finding sources.
The idea I am proposing is to look into actual benefits of probiotic food and their treatment in diseases of the GI tract. While most commercial probiotics are just a lot of marketing, probiotic treatments seem to be a thing (my microbiology teacher hinted at that). So you could look into several applications of probiotics. Things you could research are possible correlations of consumption of natural yoghurt and gut health, use of probiotics in therapy and even into using live lactic acid bacteria for the delivery of therapeutic small molecules.

Previous Idea Suggestions:

• Suggestion #1: Onions and their Health Benefits
• Suggestion #2: Tea - The Silent Killer
• Suggestion #3: Essential Oils
• Suggestion #4: Biotechnology And Beer-Brewing
• Suggestion #5: Antioxidant Hype - Claimed by @deholt, build on by @csusbgeochem1
• Suggestion #6: Your Diet Changes Your Gut Microbiome Faster Than You Think
• Suggestion #7: Target Delivery Of Cancer Therapeutics - claimed by @lianaakobian
• Suggestion #8: Science Behind The Conspiracy Theory Phenomenon
• Suggestion #9: Influence Of Drug Overuse On The Human Microbiome
• Suggestion #10: Does The Brain Talk To The Immune System?
• Suggestion #11: Synthetic Cells
• Suggestion #12: The Forest - claimed by @davidrhodes124
• Suggestion #13: The Science Behind Friendships
• Suggestion #14: Is Bread Certain Death?

Helpful Links

• How To Find Scientific Sources For Free - Post
• SteemSTEM Guidelines - Link
• Everything You Need to Know about Uploading Images on Steemit [Tutorial & MarkDown] – Link - by @katerinaramm

As always,
Cheers @lesshorrible!