Bifidobacterium bifidum VPro 51 and Improved Constipation Relief

• Bifidobacteria exert species-specific effects on constipation in BALB/c mice.

  • 2018-03-12
  • Clinical Trial
  • Food & Function 8(10)
  • • Linlin Wang
    • Lujun Hu
    • Qi Xu
    • T. Jiang
    • S. Fang
    • Gang Wang
    • Jianxin Zhao
    • Hao Zhang
    • Wei Chen

  • PubMed: 28884754
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6fo01641c

  10 Insights on

  • Improved Constipation Relief

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  The findings show that the six species of Bifidobacterium differed in their ability to relieve constipation. B. longum, B. infantis and B. bifidum were the most effective in relieving constipation.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large