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- Stress and mood disorders like depression and anxiety can follow stressful experiences, but not everyone is affected, as some people are stress resilient.
- Research shows that the gut microbiota, which is connected to the brain, can influence mood, suggesting that changes in gut health due to stress might affect emotional well-being.
- Most studies have focused on animals, while there is still limited evidence from human clinical studies regarding the relationship between the microbiome and stress resilience.
Article Abstract
Episodes of depression and anxiety commonly follow the experience of stress, however not everyone who experiences stress develops a mood disorder. Individuals who are able to experience stress without a negative emotional effect are considered stress resilient. Stress-resilience (and its counterpart stress-susceptibility) are influenced by several psychological and biological factors, including the microbiome-gut-brain axis. Emerging research shows that the gut microbiota can influence mood, and that stress is an important variable in this relationship. Stress alters the gut microbiota and plausibly this could contribute to stress-related changes in mood. Most of the reported research has been conducted using animal models and demonstrates a relationship between gut microbiome and mood. The translational evidence from human clinical studies however is rather limited. In this review we examine the microbiome-gut-brain axis research in relation to stress resilience.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8065970 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040723 | DOI Listing |
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