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Anti-Stress Effects of Lemon Balm-Containing Foods

Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) has been used historically and contemporarily as a modulator of mood and cognitive function, with anxiolytic effects following administration of capsules, coated tablets and topical application. Following a pilot study with lemon balm extract administered as a water...

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Autores principales: Scholey, Andrew, Gibbs, Amy, Neale, Chris, Perry, Naomi, Ossoukhova, Anastasia, Bilog, Vanessa, Kras, Marni, Scholz, Claudia, Sass, Mathias, Buchwald-Werner, Sybille
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Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25360512
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6114805
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author Scholey, Andrew
Gibbs, Amy
Neale, Chris
Perry, Naomi
Ossoukhova, Anastasia
Bilog, Vanessa
Kras, Marni
Scholz, Claudia
Sass, Mathias
Buchwald-Werner, Sybille
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Gibbs, Amy
Neale, Chris
Perry, Naomi
Ossoukhova, Anastasia
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Scholz, Claudia
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description Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) has been used historically and contemporarily as a modulator of mood and cognitive function, with anxiolytic effects following administration of capsules, coated tablets and topical application. Following a pilot study with lemon balm extract administered as a water based drink, which confirmed absorption of rosmarinic acid effects on mood and cognitive function, we conducted two similar double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover studies. These evaluated the mood and cognitive effects of a standardised M. officinalis preparation administered in palatable forms in a beverage and in yoghurt. In each study a cohort of healthy young adults’ self-rated aspects of mood were measured before and after a multi-tasking framework (MTF) administered one hour and three hours following one of four treatments. Both active lemon balm treatments were generally associated with improvements in mood and/or cognitive performance, though there were some behavioral “costs” at other doses and these effects depended to some degree on the delivery matrix.
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spelling pubmed-42455642014-12-01 Anti-Stress Effects of Lemon Balm-Containing Foods Scholey, Andrew Gibbs, Amy Neale, Chris Perry, Naomi Ossoukhova, Anastasia Bilog, Vanessa Kras, Marni Scholz, Claudia Sass, Mathias Buchwald-Werner, Sybille Nutrients Article Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) has been used historically and contemporarily as a modulator of mood and cognitive function, with anxiolytic effects following administration of capsules, coated tablets and topical application. Following a pilot study with lemon balm extract administered as a water based drink, which confirmed absorption of rosmarinic acid effects on mood and cognitive function, we conducted two similar double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover studies. These evaluated the mood and cognitive effects of a standardised M. officinalis preparation administered in palatable forms in a beverage and in yoghurt. In each study a cohort of healthy young adults’ self-rated aspects of mood were measured before and after a multi-tasking framework (MTF) administered one hour and three hours following one of four treatments. Both active lemon balm treatments were generally associated with improvements in mood and/or cognitive performance, though there were some behavioral “costs” at other doses and these effects depended to some degree on the delivery matrix. MDPI 2014-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4245564/ /pubmed/25360512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6114805 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Buchwald-Werner, Sybille
Anti-Stress Effects of Lemon Balm-Containing Foods
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