HeyJaredPsychobiotic: The Gut-Brain Revolution
From the bestselling National Geographic author of The Psychobiotic Revolution: How your gut microbes affect your mood, cognition, and memory.
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Meet the Metabolites: The True Drivers of Gut Health (opens the original)
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“When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.” —Bonnie BasslerPeople are waking up to the discomfiting idea that the microbes in our gut are vital to our health. Even your luddite grandpa wants to talk about the gut-brain axis. But we also take antibiotics to kill microbes. How can we tell the good guys from the bad guys?It used to be that we would place a sam
How a Leaky Gut Hijacks Your Mood (opens the original)
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“The road to health is paved with good intestines!”― Sherry A. RogersAre gut microbes about to revolutionize psychiatry? This is the story about microbes that can improve your mood (via the gut-brain axis), called psychobiotics.I wrote a book about them that was a surprise bestseller for National Geographic, called The Psychobiotic Revolution. The book was written with John Cryan and Ted Dinan, the most highly cited researchers in
The Unusual Suspects: Microbes That Cause Depression (opens the original)
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“Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.” —Susan SontagThere are many contributors to depression, including trauma, hormones, genetics, stress, bereavement, and more. To that lineup of usual suspects, we need to add gut microbes. The gut-brain axis represents the amazing connection between our gut microbes and our mood.There are some 30 trillion microbes in our gut, roughly the same as the number of cells in our b
Hot, Heavy, and Horizontal: The Secret Sex Lives of Gut Microbes (opens the original)
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“Sex is like money: only too much is enough”– John UpdikeTechnically, bacteria are asexual: There are no male or female bacteria. From an evolutionary perspective, division of a species into sexes is a recent concept, and bacteria missed that boat. But if it makes you feel better that microbes are not hooking up in your colon, don’t get too comfortable. When it comes to sexual novelty, nature is bountiful.Microbes in your gut get plenty of action, and it plays out a lot like sex. Bacteria “have
How Important Is the Gut-Brain Axis to Psychiatry? (opens the original)
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” —Ralph Waldo EmersonThe gut-brain axis has caught the attention of the world, revealing that our gut plays a intriguing role in our mood and cognition.But just how large a role? We know that depression and anxiety have numerous causes, including genetics, bereavement, and environmental stress. Those are not microbial problems, but they share a lot of symptoms with a poorly balanced microbiome.<a class="image-link image2 is-vi
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