Consumption of fermented milk product with probiotic modulates brain activity

As the role of probiotics on psychiatric comorbidities are not well known although its beneficial effects on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are well reported, this 2017 randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial analyzed the impact of the probiotic bacteria Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 (BL) on anxiety and depression in patients with IBS. The 44 participants of this trial […]

Benton, Williams & Brown (2007) investigated if drinking a milk beverage containing probiotics or a placebo would affect mood and memory, as it has been discovered that bad mood correlates with frequent constipation. In their randomly-allocated, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment, aside from three trips to the lab, the subjects (n = 124, mean age = 61.8 […]