Comment by ngruhn
Comment by ngruhn a day ago
This is gonna go viral as: just eat more yogurt to stop being awkward or whatever.
Comment by ngruhn a day ago
This is gonna go viral as: just eat more yogurt to stop being awkward or whatever.
Damn, that's my city and I have been struggling with some other stuff
I don't fall under the umbrella of Major Depressive or OCD but if they were doing trials to help anxiety or something I would probably sign up
The experiment looked to be the other way around. If you introduced new microbiota from patients with SAD this caused SAD in mice.
So introducing new microbiota won’t solve the problem. The theory that needs to be tested is that we know microbiota can switch SAD on, but does removal of said microbiota turn it off? It needs to be an antibiotic cleansing. It can even be DIY. People can try this on themselves. I think the unknown factor here though is whether or not a persons diet is introducing the SAD causing microbiota.
Do we get gut bacteria from the people around us? Where does a newborn get their gut bacteria from?
Newborns get a lot from their mother. They have very little stomach acid, so whatever they are getting goes straight through to their gut.
It's not just food as many commenters are pointing out. It could be from what people are drinking, even water, if oral delivery is not sanitized.
So if the choice is between unsanitary water or sterile and containing chlorine, etc., which has the effect of strengthening the microbiota so that the resulting population increases perceived wellness in the host organism’s sociopolitical fitness, its simple enough, we all stop eating and drinking for ultimate safety and maximum paperclips.
Chlorine is not the only way to sterilize water. Ultraviolet sterilization is a chemical-free option suitable for many use cases: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irrad...
The entry point to the gut is from the mouth so because of that, I think food is where most of the gut bacteria comes from.
You have a back door as well for the gut that tends to open at least once a day. We know fecal matter is in the air in most bathrooms. It wouldn't surprise me if you got an infusion of community fecal biome right into your anus every time you used a restroom that isn't your own.
Yoghurts probably won't help, but Fecal Microbiota Transplantation might.
A team at the University of Calgary is currently recruiting participants with Major Depressive Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
https://research.ucalgary.ca/participate/clinical-trial-eval...
https://research.ucalgary.ca/participate/focused-study-fmt-o...