Gregory Reid and Andrew Bruce

Canadian scientists Gregor Reid, PhD, and Andrew Bruce, MD, FRCS(C), have won the prestigious Metchnikoff Prize for discovering and developing Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14. These strains, the world’s most documented probiotic strains for women’s health, are featured in Jarrow Formulas’ Fem-Dophilus. Dr. Reid, director of the Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics, and professor at the University of Western Ontario, and Dr. Bruce, former chairman of Urology at the University of Toronto, were cited as scientists who have made outstanding discoveries in how lactic acid bacteria and probiotics enhance human nutrition, health and lon-gevity.