Lactobacillus brevis SBC8803 and Improved Depressive Symptoms

• How Microbes Affect Depression: Underlying Mechanisms via the Gut-Brain Axis and the Modulating Role of Probiotics.

  • 2022-01-21
  • Review
  • International journal of molecular sciences 23(3)
  • • Kazunori Suda
    • Kazunori Matsuda

  • PubMed: 35163104
  • DOI: 10.3390/ijms23031172

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Depressive Symptoms

  • Moderate evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  This review summarizes the current understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in MDD onset, and discusses the therapeutic potential of probiotics, including butyrate-producing bacteria, which can mediate the microbiota-gut-brain axis.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small