Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and Reduced Cold/Flu Severity

• Consumption of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 impacts upper respiratory tract infection and the function of NK and T cells in healthy adults.

  • 2016-03
  • RCT · n = 30
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 60(5)
  • • Huicui Meng
    • Yujin Lee
    • Zhaoyong Ba
    • Jiayu Peng
    • Junli Lin
    • Alexander S Boyer
    • J. Fleming
    • E. Furumoto
    • R. Roberts
    • P. Kris-Etherton
    • C. Rogers

  • PubMed: 26821116
  • DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201500665

  16 Insights on

  • Reduced Cold/Flu Severity

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal
  • Adults

  the POST treatment did not change immune outcomes or the severity of URTI.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small