Q, is it true that youre got influences what you want to eat more than your brain does? M, let's see. Since if microbes have food preferences, i'm really interested if microb food preferences influence my food preferences. Aqaso, quick aside, i watched this documentary called gut hack,. It's a short documentary about josiah zaners gruelling and grotesque diy fical transplant. And apart from the fact that he appeared to do a lot of h dirty work in his kitchen, i was struck by how, after he finds that the donation from a healthy friend was successful, he's looking at the geans sequencing of his new microbiomes
LOVE YOUR GUTS. 90% of your serotonin is made in your guts and you have hundreds of trillions of friends clinging to you at all times. Microbiologist Dr. Elaine Hsiao is a total badass who runs her own lab investigating the role of the gut biome in behaviors. She sat down to chat about anxiety, depression, elusive fecal transplants, autism, epilepsy, kombucha promises, autoimmune disorders, probiotics and more. Alie fanned out pretty hard and asked all of the questions about how your beloved, simmering insides affect your brain. It's gut-busting, mind-blowing info.
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