LBP and prostatitis: Treatment with the GGM extract significantly reduced the abundance of Odoribacter and Clostridiaceae levels and increased the Bacteroides uniformis levels. The aforementioned imbalance in the microbiota may in turn induce reduced concentrations of butyric, valeric and hexanoic acids and elevated serum LBP, leading to the development of prostatitis in rats, which was reversed by GGM.