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Review
. 2016 Feb 20:13:14.
doi: 10.1186/s12986-016-0067-0. eCollection 2016.

Probiotics in prevention and treatment of obesity: a critical view

Nazarii Kobyliak  1 , Caterina Conte  1 , Giovanni Cammarota  2 , Andreana P Haley  3 , Igor Styriak  4 , Ludovit Gaspar  5 , Jozef Fusek  6 , Luis Rodrigo  7 , Peter Kruzliak  8
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Review

Probiotics in prevention and treatment of obesity: a critical view

Nazarii Kobyliak et al. Nutr Metab (Lond). .

Abstract

The worldwide prevalence of obesity more than doubled between 1980 and 2014. The obesity pandemic is tightly linked to an increase in energy availability, sedentariness and greater control of ambient temperature that have paralleled the socioeconomic development of the past decades. The most frequent cause which leads to the obesity development is a dysbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. The gut microbiota as an environmental factor which influence whole-body metabolism by affecting energy balance but also inflammation and gut barrier function, integrate peripheral and central food intake regulatory signals and thereby increase body weight. Probiotics have physiologic functions that contribute to the health of gut microbiota, can affect food intake and appetite, body weight and composition and metabolic functions through gastrointestinal pathways and modulation of the gut bacterial community.

Keywords: Gut microbiota; Intestinal microflora; Obesity; Prevention; Probiotics; Treatment.

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