Resilience enables an individual to remain stable while exposed to and or to recover faster from a stressor. Recent advances in probiotic clinical trials have revealed that probiotics may help boost mood and cognitive function and lower stress and anxiety. This opinion article presents thoughts on evaluating clinically acceptable markers of resilience and focuses on probiotics as a potential effective intervention to promote resilience. Biomarker characteristics for identifying clinical relevance of a probiotic intervention for resilience via a Global Index is proposed.
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