Lactobacillus plantarum DSM 6596 and Reduced Depression Symptoms

• The Gut Microbiome in Depression and Potential Benefit of Prebiotics, Probiotics and Synbiotics: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials and Observational Studies.

  • 2022-04-19
  • Systematic Review · n = 2,817
  • International journal of molecular sciences 23(9)
  • • Sauliha R Alli
    • Ilona Gorbovskaya
    • Jonathan C W Liu
    • Nathan J Kolla
    • Lisa Brown
    • Daniel J Müller

  • PubMed: 35562885
  • DOI: 10.3390/ijms23094494

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  • Reduced Depression Symptoms

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  Probiotic and synbiotic, but not prebiotic, treatment showed a modest benefit in reducing depressive symptoms in patients with MDD over four to nine weeks.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small