Effect of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics on gastrointestinal outcomes in healthy adults and active adults at rest and in response to exercise-A systematic literature review.
- 2022-12-07
- Systematic Review · n = 204
- Frontiers in nutrition 9
- Christopher E Rauch
- Alice S Mika
- Alan J McCubbin
- Zoya Huschtscha
- Ricardo J S Costa
- PubMed: 36570133
- DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.1003620
- High evidence
Prebiotic supplementation can influence gut microbial composition and SCFA concentration; whereas probiotics increase the supplemented species-strain... Probiotic studies (n = 4/9) increased the supplemented bacterial species-strain.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Small
- Significant
- Yes