Mediterranean Diet Reduces Social Isolation and Anxiety in Adult Female Nonhuman Primates.

ABSTRACT: Dietary composition is associated with the differential prevalence of psychiatric disorders; the Western diet confers increased risk, while the Mediterranean diet appears to reduce risk. In nonhuman primates, anxiety-like behaviors and social isolation have been linked to both Western diet consumption and increased inflammatory disease risk, and recent evidence suggests that diet composition may affect immune system function in part through its effects on behavior. This is particularly important in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic in which social isolation has been associated with disease. Here, we examined the effects of Western- and Mediterranean-like diets on social behavior in a randomized, 34-month preclinical trial in middle-aged female cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fasci

SUBMITTER: Johnson CSC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9322105 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature