Probiotics, the “good” bacteria found in yogurt and over-the-counter supplements, can help in the digestion of food. Now Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Hospital & Clinics researchers have found that probiotics also help gastric-bypass patients lose weight more quickly.
Researchers followed 44 patients receiving gastric bypass from 2006 to 2007.
The group of patients taking probiotics consumed one pill per day of Puritan’s Pride, available online and in many stores. Puritan’s Pride has no financial ties with the study.
The probiotics study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, revealed that after three months, the patients taking …read more