Probiotics and the urologist
Andrew W. Bruce, Gregor Reid
Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.10, No.2, pp. 1785-1789, 2003
Abstract Emerging from the stigma of once being referred to as
“snake oil”, excellent scientific and clinical evidence
now exists to indicate that probiotics do indeed have a
role to play in medicine. The proper definition of
probiotics is important “Live microorganisms which
when administered in adequate amounts confer a
health benefit on the host”, for several reasons. It rules
out so-called probiotics that have no clinically proven,
peer-reviewed data, and it states the need to have viable
bacteria present, unlike these pseudo products which
are often wrongly labeled, poorly manufactured, with
low or no viability… More >