Depression does not always reside in the mind, but it can also begin in the gut and here's the impact of digestive health on mood and mental health. TheHealthSite.com ...

Still, human data is more nuanced. “While the evidence that the gut microbiome affects mood is relatively strong, evidence that changing the gut microbiome improves mood is not as strong,” Ziegelstein ...

Mental health professionals are discovering that many cases of anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders might actually originate in the digestive system rather than the brain, fundamentally ...

But “humans are one highly complex, highly integrated system,” says Felice Jacka, co-director of the Food and Mood Centre at Australia’s Deakin University and first author of the 2017 study. “The body ...

Are psychobiotics the future of mental health treatment? Here's how gut bacteria may influence anxiety, depression, and stress through the powerful gut-brain connection. TheHealthSite.com ...

Scientists seeded this petri plate with KLE1738 and bacteria from human stool. KLE1738 is dependent upon gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter found in mammalian central ...

If you're one of the millions of people who take a daily probiotic for digestive health, you may be getting an unexpected bonus: support for your mental health. The gut-brain connection has been a hot ...

For decades, depression treatment has focused almost entirely on the brain, with drugs designed to tweak neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. Now a wave of research is pointing to an ...

New research shows that encapsulated probiotics improve memory, while non-encapsulated powder is better for reducing anxiety and depression.

We like to believe that our decisions are made in the mind, carefully processed with logic and experience. But what if your gut is doing more than digesting lunch? What if it’s helping steer your ...

For years, mental health was seen as something that started and ended in the brain. But an expanding field of research is revealing a key player in the story of our emotions: the gut. The trillions of ...