How Probiotics May Help Treat Multiple Sclerosis

Based on their current findings, the research team arrived to a conclusion that this form of gut microbe may assume a key role in treating an autoimmune disease such as MS. “Our work is a classic example of a bedside to bench and potentially back to bedside study. Recent MS microbiome studies have shown the lack of Prevotella genus in patients with the disease and an increase when patients were treated with disease-modifying drugs. And it's not just for MS, because this may have a similar modulating effect on other nervous system and autoimmune diseases” said Ashutosh Mangalam, first author and assistant professor at the University of Iowa Department of Pathology.