Efficacy of probiotics on anxiety-A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

This 2020 systematic review scoured through the online databases Medline, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and clinical trials.gov with the aim of finding out whether probiotic supplementation can have a profound effect on psychological stress and anxiety disorders, and if so, to what extent. Vitellio et al. (2020) searched for double blind, randomized and placebo […]

In this triple-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized controlled trial published in 2015, 20 healthy participants without current mood disorder were administered with a multispecies probiotic [containing Bifidobacterium bifidum W23, Bifidobacterium lactis W52, Lactobacillus acidophilus W37, Lactobacillus brevis W63, Lactobacillus casei W56, Lactobacillus salivarius W24, and Lactococcus lactis (W19 and W58)] for 4 weeks, while another 20 subjects […]