Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Sports Performance and Performance-Related Features in Athletes: A Systematic Review

This review aims to evaluate the effects of probiotic supplementation on performance and performance-related conditions in athletes by evaluating randomized controlled studies from the MEDLINE (Pubmed), Web of Science, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus (EBSCO) databases. From a total of 2304 relevant articles...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 20; no. 3; p. 2226
Main Authors Di Dio, Mirella, Calella, Patrizia, Pelullo, Concetta Paola, Liguori, Fabrizio, Di Onofrio, Valeria, Gallè, Francesca, Liguori, Giorgio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 26.01.2023
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Subjects
Athletes
Athletic Performance - physiology
Badminton
Bias
Body composition
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Endurance
Energy consumption
Exercise
Fatigue
Humans
Males
Maximum oxygen consumption
Microbiota
Muscles
Muscular fatigue
Pain
Physical fitness
Physiology
Players
Probiotics
Review
Rugby
Systematic review
diet supplementation
probiotic
athletes
performance
sport
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Summary:This review aims to evaluate the effects of probiotic supplementation on performance and performance-related conditions in athletes by evaluating randomized controlled studies from the MEDLINE (Pubmed), Web of Science, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus (EBSCO) databases. From a total of 2304 relevant articles, 13 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Seven studies concern endurance athletes, one to rugby players, three refer to non-specified athletes, one to badminton players, and one involves baseball players. The evidence suggests that the integration of athletes' diets with some bacterial strains and also the consumption of multi-strain compounds may lead to an improvement in performance and can positively affect performance-related aspects such as fatigue, muscle pain, body composition, and cardiorespiratory fitness. However, the type of supplementation and sport is very variable among the studies examined. Therefore, to obtain more solid evidence, further controlled and comparable studies are needed to expand the research regarding the possible repercussions of probiotics use on athletes' performance.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20032226