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Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and did you know that many cases of anxiety can actually be caused by your

gut?

And let's discuss a systematic review that reviewed all of the available randomized control trials establishing,

thankfully, that treatments for your gut can actually improve your anxiety.

Now, here's a study by Yang et al published in the Journal of General Psychiatry, and I'll put

the abstract up here on the screen entitled, Effects of Regulating Intestinal

Microbiata on Anxiety Symptoms, a Systematic Review. Now again, a systematic review will

oftentimes review the available randomized control trials and summarize the findings. So this is

arguably the highest level of scientific evidence. And

thankfully, what they've concluded, as I'll outline here in a moment, is that treatments for the gut

can improve anxiety. Very, very thankfully. So let's dig into some of the details. Now to quote,

more and more basic studies have indicated that gut microbiota can regulate brain

function through the gut brain access, and dysbiosis of intestinal microbiota was related

to anxiety. However, there is no specific evidence to support treatment of anxiety by regulating

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