By Sean Moloughney, Editor09.26.18
In a viewpoint published in JAMA Internal Medicine titled “Probiotic Safety – No Guarantees,” Pieter Cohen, MD, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, recently called into question the quality, safety, and efficacy of probiotics, claiming companies have capitalized on hype around the microbiome, spinning hundreds of small studies in their favor and engaging in “creative advertising.”
“For centuries, people have consumed live bacteria in many foods, such as yogurt, cheese, kimchi, and sauerkraut,” he wrote. “The mass-marketing of isolated live bacteria for their purported beneficial or ‘probiotic’ properties, however, is a relatively recent phenomenon. The World Health Organization defines probiotics as ‘live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host.’ Yet to be sold as a probiotic supplement in the United States, a live microorganism does not r
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