By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Of all the claimed benefits of postbiotics, immune modulation is the most mechanistically grounded — and the one most in need of careful translation from bench to bedside. The immune system’s job is to detect microbes, and it does…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our independent research and testing. The geriatric dog is a distinct…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Fecal microbiota transplantation — the transfer of a processed fecal preparation from a healthy donor into a recipient’s gastrointestinal tract — is among the most direct expressions of the microbiome-as-therapeutic-target idea. Where dysbiosis is the problem, the reasoning goes,…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our independent research and testing. Few diagnostic questions in small animal…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 The premise sounds counterintuitive: that a dead bacterium might do what a live one can’t. Yet the science of heat-killed, or tyndallized, lactobacilli is one of the more compelling chapters in the postbiotic story. The immune system doesn’t, in…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our independent research and testing. The idea that the gut influences…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is one of the most common iatrogenic problems in small animal practice. A dog presents for an unrelated infection, receives an appropriate antibiotic, and within days develops soft stools or diarrhea that resolves only after the…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our independent research and testing. If the gut microbiome is an…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 “Dysbiosis” has become a catch-all term in both veterinary medicine and the wellness industry, often invoked to explain any digestive complaint. Used rigorously, it means something specific: a measurable, clinically meaningful deviation in the structure and function of the…
By Dr. Sarah Mitchell, DVM · Reviewed by the theveterinariansbag.com Editorial Team · Updated July 2026 Disclosure: This article may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps support our independent research and testing. For two decades, the conversation about…