Is there a really big correlation, like the fact that we're eating honey crisps for breakfast and like a venti frap for lunch? So that's also a huge area of study in microbium work. And other scientists have done huge, amazing studies. They sampled microbiums from indigenous tribes where they had not had any exposure to modern medicine or western life styles. There's this idea that maybe we've lost em the diversity of microbes over time through things like our life style and practices,. Our hygiene practices here. That maybe it's a bad thing that could contribute to more lychronic disease.
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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