Article: "Helpful Intestinal Bacteria Counteracts Tendency to Depression"

Andy · Dec 22, 2017

Summary: In a new study using rat models, researchers report adding a certain lactic acid bacteria to the diet can help to prevent a type of depression linked to an unhealthy lifestyle.

Source: Aarhus University.

New research suggests that the micro-organisms known as probiotics, which are normally providing health benefits in the intestines, also have an affect on the brain, or as an actual study at Aarhus University has shown; protect against depression.

In the animal study at the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University, rats were fed with an extra fatty and fiberless compound feed. Some of the rats simultaneously received a mix of micro-organisms, mostly in the form of lactic acid bacteria, in their drinking water. While the rats that lived solely on the fatty diet developed behaviour similar to depression, the rats receiving the probiotics-enriched drinking water remained neutral in their behaviour.

In other words, the probiotics offset the consequences of the unhealthy diet, explains medical doctor and PhD Anders Abildgaard. As part of his PhD dissertation, he has investigated the effect of probiotics in combination with an unhealthy diet.

The study has been published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

The rats that did not receive probiotics turned out to have an increased number of white blood cells in their brain tissues, which can be a sign of chronic inflammation and is also seen in the fatty tissues and liver of people who are overweight and in diabetics. The researchers did not find the elevated amounts of white blood cells in the brains of the rats with probiotics in their drinking water.
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Wonko · Dec 22, 2017

Alternatively it's possible that feeding rats a high fat diet makes them more intelligent and observant, and that the depression was as a result of knowing their brains were going to be sliced, whatever they did?

Allele · Dec 22, 2017

I'd be depressed too if I lived my entire life in an enclosed space and people in white coats continually prodded me and left me ever more ill.

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