Active bacterial cultures ? Does my yogurt have the benefits.

I’m trying to eat a healthy diet to heal my gut, I’ve been eating raw vegetables to help my stomach produce more enzymes, I also want to introduce probiotics. I’m sorry if this is a dumb question, but I bought Oikos Greek yogurt plain, no added sugar. I looked on the ingredients and it says active bacterial cultures, but it doesn’t say “live”. To be honest I don’t know if that makes a difference, google says the yogurt doesn’t have probiotics? Can someone explain this to me.

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My understanding: we don’t know enough about gut bacteria right now to try to affect it intelligently. However, it’s also my understanding that if you’re ingesting live bacteria your stomach acid will kill it. It may get past it in pill form, but you already HAVE bacteria in your gut so I’m not sure how successful any immigrants would be (or how much you should want them to be successful anyway). Basically: a lot of people think they know a lot about stuff we’re totally clueless about. Including potentially me

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‘Active cultures’ is the same as ‘live cultures’, just another way to say that it. Yogurt does have probiotics, since those bacterial cultures are what turn the milk into yogurt. The main question is whether any of that will make it through your stomach intact into your intestines? Maybe.