Can Bacteria in Yogurt Calm Your Anxiety?

Can Bacteria in Yogurt Calm Your Anxiety?
A lemur eats frozen yogurt and fruits at the Bioparco, a zoo in Rome, to cool off TizIana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images
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There’s new evidence that suggests a common probiotic found in supplements and yogurt could lower anxiety.

In a series of studies published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers tested how stressed-out zebrafish behaved after doses of Lactobacillus plantarum.

Once the fish were administered probiotics, they tended to spend more time toward the top of the tanks