What if your diet could relieve worry, anxiety and depression?

If you are unclear about what microbiomes are and what they mean to you, watch this video then ponder on this ... 

If you knew for sure you could relieve or reduce your worry, anxiety and depression would you change what you put on your fork? Science is discovering and demonstrating your daily food choices are a bigger, more thoughtful decision than simply asking yourself "What do I feel like eating today?" The feeling you are looking for in comfort foods may in fact leaving your uncomfortably sad. Just the opposite of what you are going for. 

Today studies show 19.1% of us suffer from anxiety disorders. It's no wonder with the 24 hour news cycle filling us up feeding our worries about what the future holds for all us with increasing awareness of daily world weather disasters, terrorists attacks, the corner grocery robbery, for many worrying about how to pay the expenses of daily living, including at times just surviving. 

For years researchers have linked stress (worry) to chromosomal damage and since 2011 medical research has proven this constant stress and distress causes DNA damage impacting your health in a negatively big way. It's no longer "just stress" it's the beginning of chronic illness, a life time of sickness, medical bills and unhappiness. 

Here's the excerpt of the study just published May 2019:

A team of researchers has reviewed literature covering 1503 people and determined that regulation of the intestinal microbiota (healthy gut bacteria) could have a positive effect on anxiety.  

The team, from the Shanghai Mental Health Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (China), reviewed 21 studies, of which 14 used probiotic “good bacteria” interventions and 7 non-probiotic interventions such as diet regulation (whole foods). 

Of the 21 studies, 11 showed a positive effect on symptoms of anxiety. Of the 14 using probiotics supplementation, 36% found them to be effective, while 6 of the 7 non-probiotic studies showed an effect (86%). Of 5 studies that used both interventions and normal treatment, only those that used non-probiotic interventions reduced anxiety symptoms. 

The authors believe that the increased efficacy from non-probiotic interventions (whole foods) might be due to the higher impact of diet change compared with probiotic supplementation. The authors postulated that this might be due to diet change resulting in a significant difference in energy supply for the bacteria, the period of the interventions being too short to have a significant effect, or the wide range of species used resulting in some not being effectively implanted.

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Cindy Cohen RN, BS BA 

Founder 

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