Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 and Improved Blood Lipid Profile

• Probiotics in atherosclerosis: mechanisms, efficacy and future directions - a review study.

  • 2026-03-25
  • Review
  • Frontiers in immunology 17
  • • Yue Cai

  • PubMed: 41958663
  • DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1722134

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Blood Lipid Profile

  • Low evidence

  Probiotics exert anti-atherosclerotic effects by restoring gut microbiota composition, reducing TMAO, increasing short-chain fatty acids, improving lipid profiles, alleviating inflammation, and protecting endothelial function.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

• A synbiotic composed of Lactobacillus fermentum CECT5716 and FOS prevents the development of fatty acid liver and glycemic alterations in rats fed a high fructose diet associated with changes in the microbiota.

  • 2017-06-08
  • Clinical Trial
  • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 61(8)
  • • Belén Rivero-Gutiérrez
    • Reyes Gámez-Belmonte
    • M. D. Suárez
    • J. Lavín
    • A. Aransay
    • M. Olivares
    • O. Martínez-Augustin
    • F. Sánchez de Medina
    • A. Zarzuelo

  • PubMed: 28463404
  • DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201600622

  7 Insights on

  • Improved Blood Lipid Profile

  • Low evidence
  • Animal Study

  In addition, the synbiotic had hypolipidemic effects.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small