Psychobiotics: An Emerging Solution for Alleviation of Psychotic Disorders

The covid-19 pandemic has made a profound impact on the mental and physical well-being of people worldwide. Apart from just treatment and prevention of such diseases which keep on emerging through mutation, it is also necessary to focus on mental health of patients. An emerging trend in this regard is psychobiotics. These are defined as probiotics that impart mental health comfort to the host when consumed in a particular quantity through the interaction with commensal gut bacteria. Depression and anxiety are disorders with greater number of cases worldwide. Although there are many treatment strategies, undesirable effects are seen. The highlight of this review is to spotlight on importance of psychobiotics in maintaining psychiatric health and its correlation with gut microbiota. It also includes different proposed mechanism and researches conducted so far to ascertain its value to human kind. Researches on psychobiotics which evidently prove that they should be considered and explored in detail have been showcased in this article. A few examples of fermented foods that exhibit psychobiotic potential along with dose have also been tabulated.