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Results from animal studies and human clinical trials suggest that various probiotics may potentially benefit body-related, biochemical, and metabolic parameters associated with obesity.
Cerdó et al. 2019

Bacteroides probiotics could be used for treating obesity
Yoshida et al. 2021 iScience 24: 103342

Preclinical Data


Clinical Data


The use of probiotics in obesity has increased, but without any logging. The databases of MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library were searched for systematic reviews and meta-analyses in the last 15 years up to April 2020. From 549 identified intervention reports, we filtered 171 eligible studies, from which 24 full-text assays wer…