Lactobacillus casei and Reduced Depressive Symptoms Postpartum

• The effect of Lactobacillus casei on postpartum depression: a randomized controlled trial.

  • 2025-11-29
  • RCT
  • BMC psychiatry 26(1)
  • • Derakhshan Abdollahpour
    • Aziz Homayouni-Rad
    • Roghaiyeh Nourizadeh
    • Sevil Hakimi
    • Esmat Mehrabi

  • PubMed: 41318456
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12888-025-07658-7

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Depressive Symptoms Postpartum

  • High evidence

  "Lactobacillus casei had no significant effect on alleviating postpartum depression symptoms."

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No