The microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract can influence our health and well-being in many ways. The gut-brain axis is one example of how human biology is connected to the gut microbiome.

You’ve surely heard of probiotics — but a budding class called “psychobiotics” is being touted for mental health benefits, with promises of improving mood, cognition and anxiety. Here’s what ...

New research published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that the gut microbiome may play a functional ...

Gastrointestinal symptom-related anxiety is a key driver of restrictive eating in irritable bowel syndrome and is linked to changes in the gut microbiome. Gastrointestinal (GI) symptom-related anxiety ...

Humans have recognized for millennia that there is a mind-body connection, and specifically, that there is a relationship between the gut and the psyche. Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine, ...

A team of US-based scientists has found a connection between diet, gut microbiota, and mental health in adults. They have shown that while higher fat and protein consumption improves mental well-being ...

For decades, mental health research focused almost exclusively on the brain. Depression was framed as a chemical imbalance, anxiety as faulty ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses how gut microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids ameliorate methamphetamine-induced depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in ...

By May 2024, Ebony Dupas knew she had a problem. She had started to feel a mild anxiety about her sense of direction and purpose in life earlier that year, but within a couple months, that had ...

The relationship between food and mood is complex and bidirectional. What we eat can significantly impact our mental health, ...