Daily intake of a dairy-based nutritional supplement improved self-reported gastrointestinal symptoms and modulated microbiota in adult Chinese volunteers

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Mild but nagging gut troubles, like bloating, constipation, and loose stools, are common in older adults and often go with an off-balance gut community. Klaudyna Borewicz, Yifan Zhao, and Yaqiong Zhu test a dairy-based supplement drink on forty-six Chinese adults with such symptoms. Volunteers drank it daily for twenty-one days in their normal lives, giving stool samples and symptom reports along the way.

By the third week, self-reported gut symptoms had clearly improved. The stool community shifted gradually, with helpful bifidobacteria rising in the first week. Two less welcome groups, Bacteroides and Helicobacter, fell over the same span. Fatty acid levels in stool did not change. The authors describe this as a first real-world test of the blend in a Chinese group.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11576911