Probiotics increased the punch of treatments that decrease the inflammation associated with multiple sclerosis, a study found.
Using the supplements to add helpful bacteria to the gut may be a way to improve patients’ outcomes, researchers added.
The team from Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital did not look at whether probiotics can improve MS itself, however — only at whether it can help reduce the inflammation linked to the disease. additional studies should explore this possibility, the researchers said.
Probiotics contain live bacteria that many scientists believe improve gut health. Recent research has shown that gut microbes can affect how the immune system works. Since MS is an autoimmune disease — or one in which the immune system attacks healthy organs and tissue — this suggests the microbes could improve MS.
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