Tag: Prebiotics

Prebiotics Are a Thing, Too—and You Should Be Eating Them

By now, you’ve heard of probiotics, the “good” bacteria that live in your gut and help the “bad” guys from taking over. Research suggests probiotics could help you lose weight, clear up your skin, improve your mood, and even help you fight disease. But just as you want to eat probiotics to reap their benefits—the

Harms Reporting Limited in Trials of Prebiotics, Probiotics, Synbiotics

MONDAY, July 16, 2018 — A considerable number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of probiotics, prebiotics, or synbiotics do not report harms-related data and/or safety results, according to a review published online July 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Aïda Bafeta, Ph.D., from the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, and colleagues examined how harms-related