Things we loved in the 1990s: the Spice Girls, chokers, Impulse body spray and probiotics. Fast forward a few decades, and the latter still has pride of place in the kitchen cabinets of the nutritionally minded public. In fact, since new research appeared mid-pandemic linking a healthy gut with less severe cases of COVID, sales of probiotic supplements have surged once again, putting the global market on a trajectory of being valued at $125 billion by 2027.
But with the latest research lasering in on how the microbiome interacts with hormones – the MVPs when it comes to decoding women’s wellbeing – gut health, and the ability of probiotics to influence it, is set to hit scientific superstar status. So how close are we really to unlocking probiotics’ potential when it comes to our hormones?
“The ability to manipulate the gut microbiome is absolutely massive. It should be the centre
