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Consumption of probiotic cheese containing Lactobacillus plantarum TENSIA (50g/day) alongside a hypocaloric diet significantly reduces Body Mass Index (BMI) and morning diastolic blood pressure in obese hypertensive patients compared to control cheese, with effects correlated to the degree of bacterial colonization.
If you are obese and have high blood pressure, adding 50 grams of this specific probiotic cheese (containing L. plantarum TENSIA) to your daily hypocaloric diet for 3 weeks can help you lose more weight and lower your blood pressure than just eating regular cheese on the same diet. The key is that the probiotic must colonize your gut, which happened in about 64% of participants.
Body mass index (BMI) was significantly reduced (p = 0.031) in the probiotic cheese group versus the control cheese group... a positive association was detected between TENSIA colonization and the extent of change of morning diastolic BP (r = 0.617, p = 0.0248)... In a pilot study of obese hypertensive patients, a hypocaloric diet supplemented with a probiotic cheese helps to reduce BMI and arterial BP values
Why this rating
It is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study, but the sample size is small (N=40) and the duration is short (3 weeks).
Source
Hypocaloric diet supplemented with probiotic cheese improves body mass index and blood pressure indices of obese hypertensive patients - a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study
Khaider K Sharafedtinov et al. · Nutrition Journal · 2013
DOI 10.1186/1475-2891-12-138
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