Get Up And Do Something: Stressful day ahead? Grab a yogurt for breakfast

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Stressful day ahead? Grab a yogurt for breakfast Oct 13th 2012, 11:37 Everyone knows the tried and true stress-busters of exercising, meditating and getting more shuteye, but who has time for all that? Here are some unexpected -- but simple -- stress-busters based on recent research, each of which you can easily work into your day. Eat some probiotic yogurt. Jamie Lee Curtis has long been touting the benefits of probiotic yogurt, aiding in, um, digestion. But probiotics don't just make your bowels regular -- they also make your brain regular. (At least, according to a study done in mice.) Researchers from the University of Cork fed mice a diet full of Lactobacillus rhamnosus (JB-1), bacteria that colonize the gut that provide healthy digestion and prevent diarrhea, and found that the mice exhibited fewer signs of depression and anxiety and expressed less corticosterone, a stress hormone. A regular diet of probiotics changed the brain chemistry in the mice -- probiotics modified how the mice expressed receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA, suggesting that probiotics change neurochemistry. Caution: doctors are not yet entirely sure which probiotics work to help people.

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