ALLEVIATE depression symptoms?! (Here’s How)
Yesterday, I told you about a surprising way to boost your gut health.
Today, I want to tell you a big reason WHY you’d want to take steps to improve your microbiome in the first place (and it has nothing to do with digestion or bloating).
According to a recent study, taking one simple step to boost your gut health can SLASH depression symptoms like anxiety, poor sleep, and difficulty concentrating.
There are many factors that go into good gut health—and just as many ways to improve it.
But it doesn’t get much easier than taking a quality probiotic.
And as a recent study showed, doing so could help put a major dent in symptoms of depression.
For this study, participants who took a probiotic in addition to their antidepressants had a higher reduction in depression symptoms than those not taking the probiotic.
They also had an increase in a beneficial group of bacteria called Lactobacillus.
This is key, as previous studies have shown that Lactobacillus have the power to help alleviate depression symptoms by inhibiting both intestinal inflammation and neuroinflammation.
Previous studies have also shown that probiotics help alleviate depression symptoms including mood, anxiety, and cognition.
This makes perfect sense, since your body has a superhighway that directly connects your gut and your brain. It’s called the gut-brain axis.
What affects one affects the other.
To boost your gut health AND your mood, you can get probiotics naturally from foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and pickles.
If you’re looking for an extra probiotic boost (or maybe you don’t eat much of those types of foods) consider taking a quality supplement.
P.S. There’s a big fat secret about antidepressants that Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know… but thankfully, word is finally starting to get out. Click here for all the details.
SOURCE:
Warfield, K. (2022, June 26.) “The #1 Supplement for Depression, New Study Recommends.” Eat This, Not That! https://www.eatthis.com/news-best-supplement-for-depression/