Lactic acid bacteria species and cholesterol level

Rusu Elena, Cristescu Cristina and Cojocaru Manole

Impact of Socio-economic and Technological Transformations at National, European and International Level (ISETT), 2015, vol. 3

Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases represent the main cause of mortality in WestEuropean countries and they are associated with increased values of blood cholesterol. The human body does not contain the enzymatic equipment necessary for the total degradation of this steroid compound. Lactic bacteria species Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium have the capacity of metabolising cholesterol. The hypocholesteremiant effect of the probiotics can be attributed to the ability of the strains of lactic bacteria of connecting cholesterol at the intestinal level. Most of probiotic products are containing lactic acid bacteria, microorganisms considered as commensal and harmless for the host organisms. The use of probiotics can represent a supplementary alternative for increasing and maintaining the healh of the human body.

Keywords: Cholesterol; cardiovascular diseases; lactic bacteria; lactobacillus; hypercholesterolaemia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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