Lactobacillus fermentum MAK20L13F and Reduced Physical Symptoms

• Fermented milk containing Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota prevents the onset of physical symptoms in medical students under academic examination stress.

  • 2016-03-11
  • RCT · n = 47
  • Beneficial Microbes 7(2)
  • • Akito Kato-Kataoka
    • K. Nishida
    • M. Takada
    • K. Suda
    • M. Kawai
    • K. Shimizu
    • Akira Kushiro
    • R. Hoshi
    • O. Watanabe
    • Tomoki Igarashi
    • K. Miyazaki
    • Y. Kuwano
    • K. Rokutan

  • PubMed: 26689231
  • DOI: 10.3920/BM2015.0100

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  • Reduced Physical Symptoms

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  Moreover, the rate of subjects experiencing common abdominal and cold symptoms and total number of days experiencing these physical symptoms per subject were significantly lower in the LcS group than in the placebo group during the pre-examination period at 5-6 weeks (each P<0.05) and 7-8 weeks (each P<0.01) during the intervention period.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes