Fermented Foods and Fiber Can Help Reduce Your Stress

Eating more fermented foods, such as sauerkraut and kefir, along with foods rich in prebiotic fiber, could slash your stress levels in a matter of weeks.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Because your gut and brain communicate via your gut-brain axis, altering microbes in your gut can influence your mood and mental health

• Eating a psychobiotic diet, which is high in prebiotic and fermented foods, led to a reduction in perceived stress after four weeks

• Those who followed the psychobiotic diet the most had the greatest decre…