SynthesisPloS one2023
Fermented dairy foods consumption and depressive symptoms: A meta-analysis of cohort studies.
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- Fermented Dairy Food Intake and Risk of Depression and Dementia in Later Life: Findings from a Prospective Cohort of Older Australians.Nutrients · 2026Article
- "Attacking" the Gut-Brain Axis with Psychobiotics: An Umbrella Review of Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Functional fermented dairy products: a review of mechanisms, health potential, and technological challenges.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Current Research in Fermented Foods: Bridging Tradition and Science.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Efficacy of Gut Microbiome-Targeted Interventions on Mental Health Symptoms in Women Across Key Hormonal Life Stages: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Food and Mood: Current Evidence on Mental Health and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Risk factors, protective factors, peripheral biomarkers, and neurocognitive markers associated with mood disorders: An umbrella review of 103 meta-analyses and systematic reviews.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Review
- Association between the Japanese-style diet and low prevalence of depressive symptoms: Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2025Article
- Gut-Brain Axis and Brain Microbiome Interactions from a Medical Perspective.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Gut-Brain Axis and Psychopathology: Exploring the Impact of Diet with a Focus on the Low-FODMAP Approach.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Association between cheese and fish consumption and the occurrence of depression based on European population: mediating role of metabolites.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe gut-brain axis has been potentially proposed as a link between the intake of fermented dairy foods and depression. We carried out this meta-analysis on published cohort studies to estimate the overall depression risk of fermented dairy foods intake.
methodsWe searched the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) and PubMed databases for all articles within a range of published years from 2010 to 2022 on the association between fermented dairy foods intake and depression.
resultsFinally, 8 studies met the inclusion criteria for this study, with 83,533 participants. Overall, there was statistical evidence of significantly decreased depression risk was found to be associated with fermented dairy foods intake (OR = 0.89, 95% CI = 0.81-0.98). In subgroup analysis, cheese and yogurt consumptions were significantly associated with decreased depression risk (OR = 0.91, 95% CI = 0.84-0.98 for cheese and OR = 0. 84, 95% CI = 0.72-0.99 for yogurt). However, we failed to find superabundant intake of fermented dairy foods intake decreased the risk of depression.
conclusionOur meta-analysis indicated that fermented dairy foods intake may have potential beneficial effect on depression via the gut-brain axis.
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