While antibiotics have done inestimable good to humankind over the

While antibiotics have done inestimable good to humankind over the last seventy years, there are several drawbacks to using antibiotics that, until recently, have been overlooked. The human microbiome, which consists of the trillions of bacteria that reside in each persons body, is essential to good health. Specifically, the body contains and requires both good and bad bacteria. It is when the proper equilibrium between the good bacteria and the bad bacteria is disrupted that a number of health issues can emerge. Nonetheless, antibiotics indiscriminately kill both the good and the bad bacteria, so each course of antibiotics should be followed by a treatment that __________________________________

Which of the following most logically completes the argument above?

A. bypasses the microbiome altogether
B. targets and eliminates only the bad bacteria
C. restores the correct balance between the good and bad bacteria
D. purges the body of the remaining antibiotics completely
E. reverses any effects from the antibiotics