Bifidobacterium bifidum MAK53B66B and Increased Butyrate Levels

• Consumption of a Bifidobacterium bifidum Strain for 4 Weeks Modulates Dominant Intestinal Bacterial Taxa and Fecal Butyrate in Healthy Adults

  • 2016-10
  • RCT
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology 82(19)
  • • G. Gargari
    • Valentina Taverniti
    • S. Balzaretti
    • C. Ferrario
    • C. Gardana
    • P. Simonetti
    • S. Guglielmetti

  • PubMed: 27451450
  • DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01753-16

  8 Insights on

  • Increased Butyrate Levels

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  The intake of approximately one billion live B. bifidum cells affected the relative abundance of dominant taxa in the fecal microbiota and modulated fecal butyrate levels.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate