{"title":"Health Benefits and Safety of Postbiotics Derived from Different Probiotic Species.","authors":"Siyavash Ghadiri Harat, Hadi Pourjafar","doi":"10.2174/0113816128335414240828105229","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nowadays, the usage of probiotics in the food industry has become common. It has been proven that probiotics have many health benefits, such as adjusting the intestinal microbiome, boosting the immune system, and enhancing anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities. However, in recent years, some concerns have arisen about the consumption of probiotics, especially in vulnerable populations such as elderly, infants, and people with underlying diseases. As a result, finding a new alternative to probiotics that has the same function as probiotics and is safer has been prioritized. In recent years, postbiotics have been introduced as a great replacement for probiotics. However, the safety of these compounds is not exactly confirmed due to the limited in vivo research. In this review, the definition, classification, activities, limitations, and some advantages of postbiotics over probiotics are discussed. Finally, the limited published data about the safety of postbiotics is summarized.</p>","PeriodicalId":10845,"journal":{"name":"Current pharmaceutical design","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current pharmaceutical design","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/0113816128335414240828105229","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Nowadays, the usage of probiotics in the food industry has become common. It has been proven that probiotics have many health benefits, such as adjusting the intestinal microbiome, boosting the immune system, and enhancing anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activities. However, in recent years, some concerns have arisen about the consumption of probiotics, especially in vulnerable populations such as elderly, infants, and people with underlying diseases. As a result, finding a new alternative to probiotics that has the same function as probiotics and is safer has been prioritized. In recent years, postbiotics have been introduced as a great replacement for probiotics. However, the safety of these compounds is not exactly confirmed due to the limited in vivo research. In this review, the definition, classification, activities, limitations, and some advantages of postbiotics over probiotics are discussed. Finally, the limited published data about the safety of postbiotics is summarized.
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Current Pharmaceutical Design publishes timely in-depth reviews and research articles from leading pharmaceutical researchers in the field, covering all aspects of current research in rational drug design. Each issue is devoted to a single major therapeutic area guest edited by an acknowledged authority in the field.
Each thematic issue of Current Pharmaceutical Design covers all subject areas of major importance to modern drug design including: medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, drug targets and disease mechanism.