Craving Clinical Trial
Official title:
Gut Health and the Effect on Substance and Alcohol Cravings
Gut health has been linked with improvement in mental health but no research has been done to evaluate if improving gut health can have an effect on alcohol and substance cravings. This pilot study is to evaluate if any decrease in cravings can be found with probiotics/prebiotics by improving gut health. Participants will take a pre-survey to evaluate their cravings. Participants will then be started on a regimen of probiotic and prebiotic with a pickle daily for 30 days to improve gut health. Then participants will take the same survey to evaluate if there has been any decrease in cravings.
Consent and a pre survey on cravings will be collected. Then participants will take a probiotic/prebiotic and a pickle for 30 days. Participants will be given a probiotic formula by Rugby Health that has Bacillus Coagulans spores 1billion colony forming unit and inulin 250mg along with a pickle daily for 30 days. After 30 days the same survey will be taken by the participants and a paired t test will be used to analyze if there is a statistical change in cravings. Participants will be in a recovery program with a prior history of substance or alcohol abuse and will be abstaining from drugs and alcohol. The purpose of the study is to evaluate if improving gut health by the above intervention can also decrease substance and alcohol cravings. Probiotics and prebiotics have been shown to improve mental health with a decrease in depression and PTSD but no studies have investigated if improving gut health can decrease substance or alcohol cravings. Probiotics are a cheap intervention that many recovery centers with limited recourses would be able to use. Fermented foods like pickles have been shown to have significant benefit to gut health with improvement in the gut biome. Pickles are also affordable which is why this combination was chosen to be studied. ;
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