Gut feelings: associations of emotions and emotion regulation with the gut microbiome in women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Accumulating evidence suggests that positive and negative emotions, as well as emotion regulation, play key roles in human health and disease. Recent work has shown the gut microbiome is important in modulating mental and physical health through the gut-brain axis. Yet, its association with emotions and emotion regulation are understudied. Here we examined whether positive and negative emotions, as well as two emotion regulation strategies (i.e. cognitive reappraisal and suppression), were associated with the gut microbiome composition and functional pathways in healthy women.

Methods

Participants were from the Mind-Body Study (N = 206, mean age = 61), a sub-study of the Nurses' Health Study II cohort. In 2013, participants completed measures of emotion-rel

SUBMITTER: Ke S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10511660 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature