Bifidobacterium lactis DSM 15954 and Unchanged Stool Consistency or Bowel Frequency

• Synbiotic Intervention with Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria, and Inulin in Healthy Volunteers Increases the Abundance of Bifidobacteria but Does Not Alter Microbial Diversity.

  • 2022-10-11
  • Clinical Trial · n = 12
  • Applied and environmental microbiology 88(19)
  • • Ingrid Maria Cecilia Rubin
    • Sarah Mollerup
    • Christa Broholm
    • Adam Baker
    • Mona Katrine Alberthe Holm
    • Martin Schou Pedersen
    • Mette Pinholt
    • Henrik Westh
    • Andreas Munk Petersen

  • PubMed: 36165644
  • DOI: 10.1128/aem.01087-22

  3 Insights on

  • Unchanged Stool Consistency or Bowel Frequency

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  No adverse effects were observed after consumption of the synbiotic product, and stool consistency and frequency remained almost unchanged during the trial.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small