date:Feb 14, 2014
Consumption of DuPont Nutrition Health's probiotic strain Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 improves the function of specialized innate immune cells, the phagocytes, in elderly subjects, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science.
DuPont Nutrition Health and the University of Reading studied the effect of probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 on immune function in healthy elderly subjects. The elderly commonly have reduced immune function and this physiological effec