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Method for Improving the Microbiome

UK company's patented method is designed to increase the abundance of a Bifidobacterium in the gastro-intestinal tract, skin or mouth.

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By: Christine Esposito

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US Patent No. 11,717,492 B2 (Ivan Petyaev); IP Science Limited, Cambridge, Great Britain, has patented a method for promoting growth or increasing the abundance of a Bifidobacterium in the gastro-intestinal tract, skin, mouth or urogenital system of a subject. It comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of a carotenoid compound selected from the group consisting of lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin, meso-zeaxanthin, astaxanthin, cryptoxanthins, flavoxanthin and neoxanthin....

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