Preliminary Research and Potential Effects
Experiments into the potential health effects of supplemental probiotics include the molecular biology and genomics of Lactobacillus in immune function, cancer, and antibiotic-associated diarrhea, travellers' diarrhea, pediatric diarrhea, inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Testing of a probiotic usually applies to a specific strain under study.
In the overview below, only preliminary evidence exists for the health claims stated. Few of the strains have been sufficiently developed in basic and clinical research to warrant application for health claim status to a regulatory agency such as the Food and Drug Administration or European Food Safety Authority, but so far no single health effect has been proven to warrant a health claim
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