Multi-strain probiotic may protect marathon runners from URTIs: Study
Writing in
Nutrients, researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo and the University of São Paulo report that for the week after the race 100% of the runners in the placebo group presented at least one URTI symptom, compared to only 71% in the probiotic group.
“The results showed that supplementation of multi-strain probiotics consisting of 1 billion CFU Lactobacillus acidophilus
-LB-G80, 1 billion CFU Lactobacillus paracasei
-LPc-G110, 1 billion CFU Lactococcus
subp. lactis
subp. lactis
-BL-G101, and 1 billion CFU Bifidobacterium bifidum
-BB-G90 […] for thirty days was able to modulate the production of cytokines by monocytes at different times and significantly decrease the incidence and severity of symptoms in the upper respiratory tracts of athletes exposed to a marathon race,” they wrote.