“…Studies in mice and rats have shown, among other things, a positive effect of probiotic preparations on glucose balance [ 78 , 87 , 88 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 112 , 113 , 118 ] and reduced insulin resistance [ 78 , 87 , 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 94 , 113 ]. Andersson et al [ 97 ], Sakai et al [ 98 ], Park et al [ 114 ], Naito et al [ 99 ], Wang et al [ 100 , 101 ], Machado et al [ 102 ], Lee et al [ 103 ], Hsu et al [ 115 ], Kim et al [ 116 ] and Zeng et al [ 104 ] have shown that the probiotic addition of different species of the genus Lactobacillus or a combination of probiotics [ 100 , 101 , 116 ] improves glucose sensitivity (tolerance) [ 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 114 , 115 , 116 ] and reduces insulin resistance [ 97 , 98 , 99 , …”