Posted on 12/24/2023 7:12:18 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Probiotics, specifically lactobacillus, demonstrated significant ability to delay a COVID infection and reduce symptoms among a group of unvaccinated people who had been in contact with someone in their household diagnosed with COVID.
The randomized, placebo-controlled study suggests that probiotics could be a relatively simple and inexpensive approach to treating people after a COVID exposure.
Wischmeyer and colleagues launched their investigation in March 2020, prior to widespread vaccine availability in the United States.
The study enrolled 182 participants, with half randomly assigned to take a probiotic of lactobacillus and the other half randomized to take a placebo pill.
Wischmeyer said the study enrollment period was shortened because the pool of eligible participants declined as vaccines became more commonplace.
Upon analysis, the researchers found that participants randomized to receive the probiotic were 60% less likely to develop COVID symptoms compared to those randomized to receive placebo—26.4% vs. 42.9%. The probiotic participants were also able to stave off infection longer compared to those receiving the dummy pill.
Although the probiotic group had a numerically lower incidence of COVID-19 diagnosis, the rate did not meet statistical significance (8.8% COVID diagnosis rate in probiotic vs. 15.4% COVID diagnosis rate in control group) because of the study size.
"We are actually not surprised by these findings," Wischmeyer said. "There have been several studies that have demonstrated the strong efficacy of probiotics against respiratory infections, including a very large study among babies in India that was published in Nature in 2017. Other early studies have shown that probiotics may also enhance the effect of vaccines against other viral illnesses, such as influenza."
Wischmeyer cited evidence that probiotics improve immune function in several ways, including increasing the population of regulatory T-cells, decreasing pro-inflammatory cytokines, increasing the lung's protective barrier against infection and modulating antiviral gene expression.
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This GG form of the bacteria is not common to yogurts, but the non-GG form, is.
Pfizer can’t make money on L. rhamnosus.
I recently had to take an antibiotic that was a combo pill with penicillin. I pretty quickly released that I was going to have a problem for the 7 days I had to take it. I grabbed some version of probiotic that I have and randomly take. It cleared the issue up straight away. Kind of amazing how the probiotics in your system can alter so much.
Where would we be without Medical Xpress?
What CFU is the best?
I have to catch it first.
You are asking someone who posts every article from medical xpress which colony forming unit is best? How would he know? Wylhy would it matter? The bacteria in yoghurt can’t even survive in a human digestive system. There are hundreds of probiotics being studied and not a single one of them can be demonstrated to have any discernible effect on human health.
I was hearing fiber is a good probiotic so if you’re a regular user of the powdered fiber, it should help keep the bad covid man away.
*yawn*
More evidence of stupid orthodox medicine researchers.
Thank you.
Fiber is a prebiotic, which favors feeding the good bacteria you already have.
yup. very good experience for me with probiotics in any respiratory illness, situation. using them for years. add it to my constant regimen (vit C, NAD+, D3, etc.) whenever i feel symptoms.
This thread reminds me that I need to get back on the kefir bandwagon.
I imagine its dead after baking, tho...
True. Poor little guys.
It seems like probiotics affect so much. I wish I had known that when I was young.
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