Mint extract improves stress

Mint extract improves stress

The results of a new study showed that consuming mint extract improves food intake and body weight under stress.

Stress interferes with the physiological function of various systems, causing changes in behavioral responses, including food intake. Considering the effects of mint in traditional medicine as an effective drug on some diseases, in a study the effect of mint on food intake and weight in conditions of immobility stress was studied.

This study was performed by Dr. Reza Rahmati from the Physiology Department of Golestan University of Medical Sciences and his colleagues.

In this study, to test mice in three groups of 10 stress, stress with intraperitoneal injection of mint extract and the control group. In the stress and stress groups with intraperitoneal injection of mint extract (27 mg / kg), mice were immobilized for four hours a day for three days. Feed intake and weight of mice were also measured.

The results indicate that there is a significant difference in food intake between the control and stress groups, stress and stress plus mint extract and also between the control and stress groups plus mint extract. The mean weight of the stress group and the stress group plus mint extract before and after the experiment showed a significant difference.

The results of this study show that the amount of food eaten as well as body weight decreases in the group under immobility stress compared to the control group. Administration of mint extract improves food intake and body weight under stress.