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Gut Health Canvas: Resilience

Can your gut improve your resilience?

Introducing our Gut Health Canvas

In this series, we dive into the links between the gut and various aspects of our mental and physical health.

Mental Health: Resilience

Can your gut improve your resilience?

  • Resilience refers to the process of adapting and coping with stress and trauma. Some individuals show a greater degree of resilience than others.
  • 🐭 When exposed to highly stressful situations, mice treated with Bifidobacterium showed increased resilience as compared to the controls which showed depression symptoms after exposure to a stressful event. Treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus also led to a reduction of anxiety-like behavior.
  • Further human studies are needed to expand our understanding of the specific mechanisms linking resilience to the gut microbiome.
  • Still, growing body of evidence shows that the balance of the gut microbiota is intimately involved in regulating the host's psychology, emotions, and cognition in response to stressful events.
  • 👨 Studies have shown that patients with IBD are more susceptible to PTSD, and PTSD exacerbates IBD symptoms (Ke et al., 2023).

 

👨 Research done in humans
🐭 Research done in mice

 

Sources:
Wang et al. 2023
Ke et al. 2023
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