title: Applications of probiotics.
abstract: Although not all action mechanisms of probiotics are fully understood, different beneficial health effects related to the consumption of probiotics are proven and accepted by the scientific world. These effects have to be put in the framework of a healthy diet, prevention and an improvement of the general well being. In this short overview, some health-beneficial effects of the regular ingestion of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus casei Shirota by both healthy persons and subjects with specific complaints is reported.
authors.affiliation: Yakult Belgium NV, Science & PR department, Joseph Wybranlaan 40, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Degeest
mesh_terms: D043302:Cultured Milk Products; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007780:Lacticaseibacillus casei / Q000502:physiology*; D019936:Probiotics