Of the many probiotic health benefits, perhaps the most important has got to be relief of the symptoms of Antibiotic Related Diarrhea.  AAD is a condition that many people suffer, but few ever get treated.  The eating of probiotic food is thought to help modulate the body’s reaction to the antibiotics’ effect on the digestive system’s microflora.  The probiotic health benefits occur because it lessens the slump in good bacteria that is caused by the antibiotics, by replacing them with more.  Other potential probiotic health benefits include the lowering of blood pressure and the bad kind of cholesterol.