{"id":663,"date":"2015-04-20T22:16:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schechtermd.com\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-04-23T03:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T03:06:26","slug":"probiotics-and-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/probiotics-and-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"Probiotics and Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/openclipart.org\/image\/300px\/svg_to_png\/172910\/intestinal-party.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recommend probiotics in my practice for a number of reasons. \u00a0I advise them for people who need to take antibiotics in order to counteract the negative effects of the antibiotics on the healthy bowel bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also advise them for patients with low level chronic gastro-intestinal symptoms and no clear cause. \u00a0Fiber (e.g. citrucel) and probiotics are a good, natural place to start.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But a recent study suggests that probiotics can effect mood!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a fascinating finding that provides further supportive evidence for the mind-body connection that is active in so many conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the report\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Brain, Behavior and Immunity,<\/em>\u00a0by researchers found that\u00a0\u00a0multi species probiotics\u00a0have an effect on mood after four weeks of supplementation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They used probiotics containing\u00a0<em>B<\/em><em>ifidobacterium bifidum,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Bifidobacterium lactis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lactobacillus acidophilus<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lactobacillus brevis<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lactobacillus casei<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lactobacillus salivarius<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Lactococcus lactis <\/em>and looked at the<em>\u00a0<\/em>effect on rumination, a stressful psychological symptom related to anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Participants given the healthy bacteria (probiotic) felt better and had less rumination than those given a placebo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amazing stuff! \u00a0Perhaps one day soon we&#8217;ll understand this phenomenon well enough to treat, at least in part, mood issues with probiotics, not just anti-depressants and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The old saying &#8220;the way to a man&#8217;s heart is through his stomach&#8221; will then become &#8220;the way to a person&#8217;s brain\/mood is through his intestinal tract&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend probiotics in my practice for a number of reasons. \u00a0I advise them for people who need to take antibiotics in order to counteract the negative effects of the antibiotics on the healthy bowel bacteria. &nbsp; I also advise them for patients with low level chronic gastro-intestinal symptoms and no clear cause. \u00a0Fiber (e.g. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.schechtermd.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}