[Effect and mechanism of bamboo leaf flavonoids on depression in type 2 diabetic rats]

Spurred by a lack of sufficient studies investigating the impact of dietary carotenoids on depression, Lin & Shen (2021) conducted their study to explore the links between carotenoids found in diet and the pervasiveness of symptoms of depression. Selecting a population of 4,105 adults from the 2015-2016 United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, […]

Flavonoids, which are biologically active chemicals found in plants, have been shown to have significant physiological functions that benefit our health, however, flavonoids are not readily absorbed in the intestine and require pre-processing through the intestinal gut microbiota. Flavonoids, in turn, influence the gut microbiome population by providing the microbiome with nutrients from their breakdown, […]