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It is increasingly well understood that the countless microbes in our guts help us to digest our food, to absorb and produce essential nutrients, and to prevent harmful organisms from settling in.
Less intuitive — perhaps even outlandish — is the idea that those microbes may also affect our mood, our mental health and how we perform on cognitive tests. But there is mounting evidence that they do.
Learn more:
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/gut-brain-axis-mental-health-microbiome #KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon #GutHealth #SciComm
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