Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Reduced Psychological Distress

• Effect of Probiotics on Psychiatric Symptoms and Central Nervous System Functions in Human Health and Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2022-01-30
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Nutrients 14(3)
  • • Charlotte Le Morvan de Sequeira
    • Charlotte Hengstberger
    • Paul Enck
    • Isabelle Mack

  • PubMed: 35276981
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu14030621

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  • Reduced Psychological Distress

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  At quantitative level, depression and psychiatric distress improved slightly in the probiotic condition ... psychiatric distress: mean difference -0.33 (95% CI: -0.53, -0.13); p = 0.001).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes