Do probiotics improve your mental health?
The answer may surprise you.
It’s common knowledge that you should supplement with probiotics if taking an antibiotic, right? Probiotics are recommended to improve a number of symptoms, especially those surrounding gut dysbiosis (an imbalance of good and bad bacteria and other small creatures that live in your gut). You may feel like you are supposed to be on a probiotic for general health and I’ve seen others express guilt if forgetting to take it.
We often think of supplements as harmless at worst and beneficial at best. But is this really the case?
In looking at mental illness we have to remember to see the patient as a whole person. This is not just about the brain. This could be about inflammation, anemia, gut dysbiosis, thyroid dysfunction…and supplementing with vitamin D, while making lab values look better or possibly improving symptoms, may completely miss the root cause of the problem.
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