Study Can Probiotics Make You Happier? Study Suggests So

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Preliminary placebo-controlled study suggests people taking probiotics may spend less time ruminating about bad things - A nice way to get out of depression!

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150414083718.htm

Compared to subjects who received the placebo intervention, participants who received the multispecies probiotics intervention showed significantly reduced ruminative thoughts. Colzato: “Even if preliminary, these results provide the first evidence that the intake of probiotics may help reduce negative thoughts associated with sad mood. As such, our findings shed an interesting new light on the potential of probiotics to serve as adjuvant or preventive therapy for depression.”

“Rumination is one of the most predictive vulnerability markers of depression” says Steenbergen. “Persistent ruminative thoughts often precede and predict episodes of depression.”