The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics, in its 15th year, held its 2016 Annual Meeting June 7th to 9th in Turku, Finland. Prof. Seppo Salminen, who has more publications on probiotics than any other researcher globally, was the local
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Probiotic Products Now Available to US Doctors
30 May 2016by Kristina Campbell
When patients ask about taking a probiotic product to address a symptom, physicians often have difficulty making evidence-based recommendations and are faced with the time-consuming task of finding and comparing results from published clinical studies.
On the second day of the 2016 GMFH meeting, several speakers addressed the topic of the definition of probiotics. To my surprise, some of the speakers seemed to be unclear about the definition of a probiotic.
New insights on the potential of gut bacteria and breast milk oligosaccharides to prevent childhood malnutrition
30 Mar 2016by Andreu Prados
Childhood undernutrition affects millions of children worldwide and has long-term severe effects, which include stunted growth and impaired cognitive development, among others. A recent study, led by Dr. Jeffrey Gordon from the Centre for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA), found that gut bacteria could be considered a useful tool for ameliorating the harmful side effects of malnutrition in mice.
Authors of this paper attempted a meta-analysis of 56 studies on single-strain and multi-strain probiotics for the treatment of IBS, but trials were so heterogeneous when it came to probiotic concentration, duration of treatment, and methodology, that the meta-analysis was abandoned.
In recent years, there is growing interest in alternative treatments for both inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome.
In new understandings of IBS, diet and probiotics emerging as promising treatments
2 Oct 2015by Kristina Campbell
When talking about irritable bowel syndrome [IBS], Dr. Eamonn Quigley eschews the term 'functional disorder'. For Quigley, a gastroenterologist and researcher at Houston Methodist Hospital (USA), it's only a matter of time before the disordered physiology of IBS becomes clear.
The Third International Congress of Translational Research in Human Nutrition (ICTRHN) took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 26 & 27, 2015.
One of the probiotic strains was recovered in the stool of the children at 10 days and 3 months of age, but there were no differences between the gut microbiota of the children in the control group and those in the probiotic group at 1 and 2 years of age.
PreProSim Congress Report: A role for prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics in metabolic disorders and obesity
1 Sep 2015by Fernando Aspiroz
At the second PreProSim -- Brazilian Congress on Pre, Pro and Synbiotics --, several sessions on June 16th covered the topic of metabolic disorders and obesity.
