Gut Brain - Dr. Emeran Mayer - Neuroscience
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The Role of Microbes in Brain Communication
There's obviously, you know, thousands of metabolites. Many substances are almost identical to the human neurotransmitters that are produced in the gut. How many of these compounds make it to the brain is questionable. But they do act locally in the gut on the interic nervous system and can also communicate on sensory nerve fibers of the vagus.
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