Probiotic supplementation for optimizing athletic performance: current evidence and future perspectives for microbiome-based strategies.
- 2025-07-15
- Review
- Frontiers in nutrition 12
- Timea Teglas
- Zsolt Radak
- PubMed: 40735239
- DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1572687
- Low evidence
probiotics show strain and duration-specific effects both on endurance-based and intermittent-exercise associated sport. The supplementation can reduce inflammatory process activity and stress-related factors... In endurance-based sports, probiotics enhanced lipid metabolites... modulated the maximal oxygen capacity, and reduced gastrointestinal symptoms.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Small