Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria

Re:Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria by wolco on Sunday May 26, 2019 @10:01PM (#20018887)

I would be interested to hear what has worked / not worked.

As someone who distroyed his microbiome with antibiotics and spent the last year and a half trying to rebuild.

Probiotics can work by changing acid levels/etc not by populating that specific strain. Prebiotics give you the biggest bang.

Diarrhea seems to bring anxiety. Constipation depression.

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Re:Anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria by BrendanD on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:05AM (#20021444)

There was a recent small scale study[1] that suggested taking probiotics could increase the time for the gut microbiota to return to normal. The biggest bang might have been a fecal transplant of cultures taken from your own gut before you started on antibiotics. The study is more suggestive than conclusive because of limited sample size.

[1]https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180906141640.h...

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