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Peter Stanislav Jan Mareš's avatar

Thank you, Mark. I don't have a dog in this one. It just came up in my gut recovery quest, following all the antibiotic incursions during my hip surgery. Best.

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Peter Stanislav Jan Mareš's avatar

There is in fact, a cure. Probiotics are the most effective treatment for depression. Better than pharma drugs, focussed dietary probiotic supplementation, improves depression and anxiety. By re-establishing the brain-vagus nerve-gut, axis, probiotics make available some 90% of the seratonin produced in the gut. This is in turn, made available to the blood, via the intestinal wall lining. All without the side effects of pharma drugs...

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Mark Rice-Oxley's avatar

Tnx Peter - interesting! Probiotics very promising. This is a good meta-study from last year. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10893170/

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