Lactobacillus helveticus VPro 13 and Improved Positive Mood States

• Heat-killed Lactobacillus helveticus improves mood states: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

  • 2023-04-14
  • RCT · n = 58
  • Beneficial Microbes 14(2)
  • • N. Mutoh
    • I. Kakiuchi
    • A. Hiraku
    • N. Iwabuchi
    • K. Kiyosawa
    • K. Igarashi
    • M. Tanaka
    • M. Nakamura
    • M. Miyasaka

  • PubMed: 37026368
  • DOI: 10.3920/BM2022.0048

  14 Insights on

  • Improved Positive Mood States

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Four weeks of heat-killed *L. helveticus* MCC1848 intake, compared to placebo, significantly improved the shortened version of the POMS 2 'friendliness' and the VAS 'relaxed' scores, which are two indicators of positive mood states.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes