Probiotics for the treatment of depressive symptoms: An anti-inflammatory mechanism?

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Effects of probiotics on depressive or anxiety variables in healthy participants under stress conditions or with a depressive or anxiety diagnosis: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Probiotics have been linked to the management of anxiety and depression, and have been used on individuals with a range of emotional states, but no meta-analysis has explicitly mentioned this. As a result, the findings that have been published in the literature have been uneven. In this meta-analysis by Chao et al. (2020), the authors […]

Probiotic consumption relieved human stress and anxiety symptoms via modulating the gut microbiota and neuroactive potential

Stress has been demonstrated to affect human intestinal microbiota, causing mental health derangements like anxiety and depression. The functions of the gut microbiota include the synthesis and/or consumption of several neuroactive molecules, and several human studies demonstrated how probiotics can alter neurotransmitter levels by influencing the microbiome. However, several challenges stood in the face of […]