- Yakult Trial at Loughborough University, UK -
Results of a recent trial by Professor Michael Gleeson of Loughborough University, the UK, have demonstrated a clear health benefit for athletes drinking the commercially available fermented milk drink Yakult, which contains the unique probiotic strain LcS. The athletes were staff and students at the university who were involved in regular intensive sports training, such as cycling, triathlon, middle-long distance running or swimming.
The results confirmed that daily consumption of Yakult was effective in reducing the incidence of common colds (i.e. upper respiratory tract infections, or URTIs) in the athletes. In earlier research, it has been demonstrated that as a group, athletes are susceptible to infections due to a depression of their immune system.
The study was fully described and published online in the scientific peer-reviewed publication International Journal of Sport Nutrition & Exercise Metabolism.
[Abstract] The double-blind trial was conducted in 84 endurance athletes. Subjects were divided into 2 groups: 42 received Yakult (6.5 x 10 (9) = raising 10 to the 9th power = live cells of the probiotic strain LcS in each bottle) and 42 received a placebo. After the subjects consumed the given drink twice daily for 16 weeks, the drinking effect on the incidence of URTIs and immune parameters was examined. - pna
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