Probiotics and Your Health
August 13, 2025

Probiotic Bacteria Produce Essential Nutrients

Probiotic Bacteria Produce Essential Nutrients

Scientists are discovering that probiotic bacteria are amazingly complex chemical factories. In 2019, a landmark paper was published titled Postbiotic Metabolites: The New Frontier in Microbiome Science.¹ That paper revealed that the primary “job” of probiotic bacteria is to produce compounds called postbiotic metabolites (synonymous terms appearing in the scientific literature are bacterial metabolites and microbial metabolites).

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