Supporting the hypothesis that functional dyspepsia may be caused by dysbiosis in the small bowel, a spore-forming probiotic controlled symptoms in a randomized trial.
The probiotic was effective for multiple symptoms and was associated with a reduction in markers of inflammation and an increase in a putatively healthier fecal bacterial population, according to Lucas Wauters, MD, PhD, of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at University Hospitals, in Leuven, Belgium.
When volunteers