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Gut Feeling

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Psychobiotic

Psychobiotic is a word that has evolved in its meaning. A psychobotic is an intervention that targets the microbiom for mental health benefit. The baby mice without any bacteria in their guts, there's a couple of regions in their brains that end up pretty different from mice who grew up with gut microbes. How this all works isn't totally clear. There s to be a way in which chemicals that microbes make are helping tell the brain how to develop - but that still has to be worked ot.

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