I probiotics they have been on the market since the early 900s, precisely in the forms in which we know them today. To testify is a 1907 advertising poster of the company The ferment Paris.
The poster, published opposite, boasts the health properties of fermented milk Lactobacillins, useful for the well-being of the intestine, and produced according to the indications of Elie Metchnikoff, the Russian biologist Nobel Prize in medicine, a pupil of Pasteur, and famous for his studies on the role of lactobacillus bulgaricus contained in yogurt in the longevity of the Bulgarian population.
The attention given by research to lactose intolerant people was alive even at the beginning of the last century. Alongside the fermented milk, the small laboratory offered the same enzymes in tablets. All according to an “irréprochable au point de vu de l'hygiène” standard.
