Probiotic With or Without Fiber Controls Body Fat Mass, Associated With Serum Zonulin, in Overweight and Obese Adults—Randomized Controlled Trial

Highlights•The probiotic B420 and synbiotic LU+B420 seem to control body fat mass in humans, especially in the abdominal area.•B420 and LU+B420 reduce waist circumference and energy intake, but only LU+B420 increases lean body mass.•Reduced body fat is associated with zonulin, a marker of epithelial permeability, supporting earlier preclinical findings.Concise results on probiotics for weight management are lacking. Stenman et al. show in a gold...