Improve metabolic health, such as eating kimchi lactobacillus during pregnancy and losing the child's weight
Jun 19, 2025
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The research team led by Kim Young-joo, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Ewha Womans University Mokdong Hospital, published the results of the study titled 'Kimchi-derived probiotic intervention in a sex-specific manager in rat off spring affected' in the latest issue of the Journal of Functional Foods (IF 5.6), an international renowned academic journal.
The research team used the lactobacillus Weissella confusa WIKIM51 strain derived from dandelion kimchi, a traditional Korean fermented food, to analyze metabolic health indicators for offspring of mothers who ate high-fat diets during pregnancy in animal models.
As a result of the study, obesity, liver fat accumulation, and blood lipid abnormalities were clearly found in male offspring of mothers who ate a high-fat diet, and WIKIM51 was supplemented for 6 weeks, and metabolic functions such as ▲ weight loss and liver weight reduction ▲ improvement of cholesterol and triglyceride in the blood ▲ inhibition of liver lipid synthesis were significantly improved.
This study is significant in that it approaches the effect of eating habits on the health of offspring during pregnancy from the perspective of 'fetal programming', identifies the effect of the mother's nutritional status during pregnancy on the offspring's lifelong health, and suggests treatments to improve the risk of metabolic diseases according to the prenatal environment by using kimchi-derived lactobacillus.
Professor Kim Young-joo, the head of the study, said "It was confirmed that the negative effects of the high-fat diet of mothers on offspring can be improved with probiotics."Especially, different treatment effects depending on gender have important implications for establishing personalized treatment strategies in the future."
He then said "We will focus our research on developing customized lactobacillus for pregnant women and preparing prevention-oriented progeny health strategies in that women's health care during pregnancy greatly affects the lifelong health of their offspring."
Meanwhile, this study was conducted with research support from the Korea Research Foundation, the Korea Health Industry Promotion Agency, and Ewha Womans University, and joint research was conducted by receiving kimchi-derived strains from Farmsville.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
