Drew Burney

So theoretically, it should work or it could work.

This could be a possible pathway by which

You know, your gut and your brain talk to each other, can calm down or get more excited, you know, based on whatever's going on in your gut, sure.

The interesting thing, though, that I found is just kind of a split in this one.

So people who have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, like GAD or even OCD or anything like that, they find that probiotics actually help them more than just if you just kind of have, like, some mild anxiety that you're worried about.

You know, it's not necessarily clinical anxiety.

level of anxiety, but some anxiety that just bothers you.

Probably not going to get a whole lot from that using any sort of probiotic.

Several studies have found like there's a fairly big effect size, like anywhere from 0.5 to 0.7 for people with psychiatric anxiety disorders.

So yeah.

So this is one of those definitely depends situations for sure.

The science is still kind of out on which strains of probiotics actually help.

So when they try to do these meta-analyses, it's really hard because there's always different strains.

There's always different methods that go into these, different samples that they're using, or the participant pool they're pulling from is very different.

So it's really hard to make generalizations from a lot of these studies.

We don't have big pool data that we can pull from.

There's definitely some evidence that a few different strains in a few different populations do respond pretty well to them.

And methods that they use too.

Yeah, sure.

I mean, yeah, it does make a lot of sense.