News Finding: They might be a good way to fight anxiety or depression, or simply make you feel better after a bad day.
Paper Finding: The present study has a few limitations that deserve discussion.
News Context: They might be a good way to fight anxiety or depression, or simply make you feel better after a bad day. The people who took probiotic supplements began to see improvements in their moods; they reported less reactivity to sad moods than those who took placebos. In other words, the people who took probiotic supplements were better able to overcome sad moods than the others, and thus had fewer depressive thoughts following bouts of sadness.
Paper Context: Follow-up probiotics studies could explore this possibility, for example by using the lactulose/mannitol ratio in urine to evaluate intestinal permeability . The present study has a few limitations that deserve discussion. Hence we cannot exclude that the consumption of probiotics was accompanied by spontaneous dietary changes that may have indirectly accounted for the effect.