Nutrients (Oct 2022)

What Surgeon Should Know about Probiotics

  • Katerina Kotzampassi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14204374
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 20
p. 4374

Abstract

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Back in the 1980s, Fuller R, when working on gut flora, concluded that “there is good evidence that the complex microbial flora present in the gastrointestinal tract … is effective in providing resistance to disease; however, the composition of this protective flora can be altered by dietary and environmental influences, making the host susceptible to disease” [...]

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