Bifidobacterium plantarum and Reduced Body Weight

• Efficacy of probiotic supplementation for body weight management in overweight and obese adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials predominantly from East Asia.

  • 2026-03-20
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Frontiers in public health 14
  • • Shuying Liu
    • Kani Ouyang
    • Xuelian Fang
    • Huijuan He
    • Mengying Li

  • PubMed: 41938967
  • DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1767108

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Body Weight

  • High evidence

  probiotics effectively improve body weight (MD = -0.52, 95% CI - 0.90 to -0.13, p < 0.01)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

• Nutritional Status in Obesity: A Comprehensive Narrative Review of Dysbiosis, Micronutrient Deficiencies and the Effects of Probiotics/Synbiotics.

  • 2026-02-28
  • Review
  • Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) 62(3)
  • • Andra-Diana Cecan
    • Adriana-Florinela Cătoi
    • Anca But
    • Iulia-Ioana Morar

  • PubMed: 41901543
  • DOI: 10.3390/medicina62030458

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Body Weight

  • Low evidence

  Several in vivo and clinical studies have reported a potential causal relationship between probiotic supplementation and the improvement of weight-related conditions.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small