Prebiotics, Probiotics & Anxiety

Introduction On 25th May, I spotted a small item in the newspaper with the headline “Veg gives a bellyful of cheer.” I found a longer article online, with the headline “Eating more fruit and vegetables is a more efficient way of improving gut bacteria to help curb anxiety than trendy probiotic drinks, study finds” (Ref 1). It didn’t take long to trace the source of these articles to a paper by Yang et al in the General Psychiatry journal. The article is on open view here (Ref 2). It is called “Effects of regulating intestinal microbiota on anxiety symptoms: a systematic review.” The newspaper headline grabbed my attention because of a recent conversation I had had. After my presentation at the Public Health Collaboration, someone

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