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Medicine 2021-05-05 1 min read

International group of experts publish consensus definition of 'postbiotics'

New paper clarifies important characteristics of the emerging category of postbiotics, making it clear how they differ from probiotics
The idea of deriving health benefits from live microorganisms is well known, but some non-living microorganisms, too, can have beneficial health effects. Yet even with an increasing number of scientific papers published on non-viable microbes for health, the category is not well defined and different terms are used in different contexts.

Now, a group of international experts has clarified this concept in a recently END