The Truth About the Gut to Brain Connection 

That or you're experiencing the placebo effect. I'd try regular, non-bulgarian yogurt without knowing thats what you're eating.

From what I know, there are good studies documenting the effect of Lactobacilli on the physical health. I don't know anything about mental health in relation to the bacteria, however, Japan has tried to 'copy' and be able to implement the bacteria in dairy products who lack it. As a Bulgarian myself, I am happy there is someone who is aware of its benefits, and I suggest that more research is definitely needed.

@@iloveplasticbottles Maybe Bulgarian yoghurt is the same as Greek yoghurt? Maybe it is live rather than pasturised to death? I dont know but it would make a difference.

@@iloveplasticbottles gaba is produced in the gut so if he has a low gaba deficiency his body won't be able to tolerate stress and it'll lead to anxiety symptoms

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"Ay! Cool it on the McDonald's up there!"

@@ToiletPlugger😂

@N K Her early diet failed to turn-on the usual sexuality genes. This is very common these days of GMOs and pesticide food consumption. It is WHY the entire gender confusion expression we see in the news. This is new and not something which was hidden by a tyrannical system run by Charlton Heston and Ronald Reagan. We do have millions more severely screwed up people with gender issues now because of a crappy food supply. The bugs who benefit don't want us changing this in fact the opposite.

It really is. Did you know that changing what you eat can change your gut microbiome in just 2 days?

I haven't got the vagus idea what would happen.

Not enough information, its too vagus

Only if your "second brain" is the one in charge .

you win

What happens in Vagus stays in vagus :)

:) In real life that's so logical. When a person is hungry even if they are shy, they might go ask other people for food or just find them self surprisingly more out going to a point where they might "find them self" stealing food sometimes (it's not an excuse tho). Scientifically it's all gut bacteria! What i wonder about now : does any kind of bacteria interfere when people are scared, hopeless, traumatized, happy, ... even when they are not hungry?! in other words can the emotional state or even the personality of a person be related to it's bacteria?

Thanks for writing this. It helps me. M suffering from anxiety nd don't know how to deal with it. Doctor advised for yoga nd meditation. I will be thankful if you can suggest me some thing to cure it. (Sry for poor english)

Could you elaborate on the "helping heal my gut" part beyond removing gluten? Diet changes? Probiotics? It is not something you covered in your post and I'd like to know more.

Romeo Romeo, are you saying the doctor prescribed NO meds to help with the attacks?!? That is incomplete response to your problem. Yes, yoga and meditation are good ways to fulfill the exercise part, and diet IS important. But unless these have eliminated your problem, you should have meds to carry you through attacks. I should mention that I used mine as a last resort, and was able to calm myself when an attack began in part by knowing tat the meds were on the cabinet if I needed them. Consider asking your doctor for fallback prescription.

TMI but was one of your symptoms a very loose stool 👀 (asking for myself)

Xxfreak054xx what is the name of the doctor you went through

glad to not be a fecal transplant recipient mouse

Margaret Thatcher I used what's called a low fodmap diet to find what foods I can eat. The diet was at first very restrictive of fruits and vegetables. As I progressed I found that pretty much only wheat and corn are the main irritants to my gut.

Iron Manatee I’m sorry you had to go through that. I hope you are doing better now. I too had to go through two rounds of strong antibiotics and I literally could feel myself becoming more and more depressed everyday. Hopefully doctors start to listen to us.

Very interesting.

64standardtrickyness, I know you mean to be funny, but people will agree w/you out of loneliness. You can’t fill the hole w/food; you have to switch your focus away from the hole. Focus on a fuller life - that will start to close the hole.

And he also said, "all disease begins in the gut."

And he also said, "What's for dinner?"

kiwiboy1999 ...not really.

Not really, at all. The antibiotics we take have minimal effect on our microbiome for many reasons. A major one being that the microbes we don't want usually have a different make-up than the ones we do. We also have so many of the good microbes that any damage to their numbers is quickly repaired.

I have one response to that; we apparently had no idea that the intestines, and the microbes within, had a large impact on mental health and general mood. it'd be foolish to rule out us simply not knowing the potentially damaging effect you'd expect from killing microbes.

Eh, it depends. There's a lot of antibiotics that can give you a C. Diff infection because the good bacteria were killed too.

But if we have never measured a noticeable mental effect from antibiotics. Why would it suddenly start being an issue?

Have your doctors ever considered a decade transplant?

@amberkat8147 This is going to sound way out there but aside from all the info about chemicals, bacteria and such there is one thing no one is talking about. It’s the mysterious interactions that happen inside the tiny spaces between the neurons. Called the synapse, this space could be infused with a calming power that can cause dramatic positive changes in how you experience your life. For example, if you could optimize both your head and gut brain together you would find huge improvement in your mental health. Let me know if you’d like to know more.❤

Mind-blowing

it definitely transfers sex hormones

Are you serious?

If it was we'd all have ulcers

Good point. I think it is rather naive to think any behavior we do is NOT being driven by microbial need. I think it is rather obvious the oldest parts of the brain are the ones responsible for the most basic of human functions. They house the original microbes. The pecky order flows from there.

Nice thought!

Even worse. Proof that Vegans actually have a different brain than regular humans!

Yes actually, that's possible. I've been working in a feeding behavior-based neuroscience lab for some time now, and the gut-microbiome-brain axis is one topic we are currently exploring. The lactose mutation would cause there to be an increase in sugar availability for those microbes that can metabolize lactose, giving them an advantage. Larger colonies of those microbes could affect the chemistry of the enteric nervous system. (By-products of lactose metabolism could also play a role; gas production in response to lactose availability for example could give a separate species a carbon source). It's an extremely complex system and literally any changes can have an effect on the entire system as a whole.

Sarcastic dog whistle. Props.

Wouldn't the pressence of lactase in the gut deprive the microbes that metabolize lactose of their sustenance, putting them in a Disadvantage?

If you're kissing their ass,yes.

59acres specifically the anus

59acres Because someone eats your booty like groceries.

It means that if someone vomits in your mouth and you swallow it, you become more like them. So Rick & Morty got it right.

Bum

Beautifully stated but the sci show will not look at or address this ground breaking discovery

one channel watching another channel. mind blown!

Rare, don't steal.

original character doughnut steel.

You should make a video on Toxoplasma gondii and all the weird research into it!

I always thought it was the Vegas nerve. Today I found out that I'm a moron.

Y3arZer0 ikr

This has been known since the late 90s. memetics Richard Brodie...he also developed the original Microsoft Word...duh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brodie_(programmer)

Alexander Cooper they shoved poop 💩 up there butt and then cut the brain up to study it.

......it's a joke

Robert Opran Biochemistry. Biology.

thank you.

study a subject called microbiology. Or just biology. Actually, you can study pretty much any of the basic sciences and still get into this research because its all interdisciplinary nowadays

Strains of Bifidobacterium, which is common in the gut flora of many mammals, including humans, have generated the best results so far. Cryan recently published a study in which two varieties of Bifidobacterium produced by his lab were more effective than escitalopram (Lexapro) at treating anxious and depressive behavior in a lab mouse strain known for pathological anxiety. Although Cryan is optimistic that such findings may point the way to the development of psychobiotics, he is wary of hype. “We still need a lot more research into the mechanisms by which gut bacteria interact with the brain,” he says. www.scientificamerican.com/article/mental-health-may-depend-on-creatures-in-the-gut/ A decade ago a research team led by Nobuyuki Sudo, now a professor of internal medicine at Kyushu University in Japan, restrained germ-free mice in a narrow tube for up to an hour and then measured their stress hormone output. The amounts detected in the germ-free animals were far higher than those measured in normal control mice exposed to the same restraint. These hormones are released by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which in the germ-free mice was clearly dysfunctional. But more important, the scientists also found they could induce more normal hormonal responses simply by pretreating the animals with a single microbe: a bacterium called Bifidobacterium infantis. This finding showed for the first time that intestinal microbes could influence stress responses in the brain and hinted at the possibility of using probiotic treatments to affect brain function in beneficial ways. “It really got the field off the ground,” says Emeran Mayer, a gastroenterologist and director of the Center for Neurobiology of Stress at the University of California, Los Angeles. Searching the internet for Emeram Mayer is a good place to start.

invinciblenoodle don't we all?

You don't need to because you're a valuable person and I love you.

Are you really completely invincible?

If only everyone had your capacity for self-awareness.

Best comment I've ever seen. I'll say that instead of letting people I don't know, know what I think.

If you're interested in this video, you may also be interested to know that when the gut microbiome is out of balance, it typically has 2 characteristics: low production of butyrate-producing bacteria, and overgrowth of bad bacteria! The more you know!

lmao fr

Your story doesn’t make sense at all. You sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist.

ridjf breast milk actually contains many different oligosaccharides which the baby cannot digest to promote helpful bacteria colonization of the gut by feeding them. Baby formula needs to incorporate those to get close to breast milk.

Dark Rainbow I'm glad someone pointed that out! I wonder if anyone is studying possible correlations between dramatic decline in breastfeeding rates and dramatic increases in mental health issues in the 'developed' world? Probably not as there is no profit in it! Yet it could be one answer to a conundrum of mental health issues in the developed nations.

it's called breast feeding

+Clare Lusher I was thinking something similar. How much does one's diet affect one's mental health or even how one reacts to daily challenges? This entire field of study will likely lead scientists to the conclusion that maintaining a healthy diet is imperative to healthy brain development and maintenance. All these kids who were raised on McDonalds and taught to use these soaps and hand sanitizers that kill 99.99% of bacteria might be so disadvantaged by the negative impact on their microbiome. If you really stop and think about how much you could be effected by poor diet, it kind of puts a lot of things in perspective.

There already IS a "formula" for that! It's called BREAST MILK from each of our mothers! XD We need to stop trying to create fixes for things, most of our "fixes" lead to more problems. Nature, living by the natural order of our own biology, already has all the fixes! It's because we have moved so far from the natural order of the world that we have so many problems/disorders/illnesses to begin with.

What did you do to change it? And how significant was the change

KamiltheCamel #justasianthings

Not only Asians have small hands.

KamiltheCamel Ya, you were _totally_ talking about your hands... 😉

Well at least I like to use my hands on it.

KamiltheCamel hey wow

Sean Ross pulled out the biggest fart ever

that is true. The function of a neurotransmitter seems to vary depending on where they are localized to.

Sure doesn't, so unless gut and platelet serotonin is what emotion & behavior is all about.... Also, tryptophan does get to the brain (serotonin precursor), but little/no evidence microbes influence ppl's tryptophan levels.

those mice must have eaten fecal matter as heavenly possible

I dont remember eating a human

Redstone Pro duhhhh your memory was wiped

Zenn Exile so if I eat pssy then does that turn me into a pssy.

Every single day you consume a measurable amount of human, in the form of hair and skin cells. So it is not that you don't remember, Redstone Newb, it is that you did not even notice. Because you are a disgusting waste of cognitive ability, and have developed no concept of what it means to have a single perspective, among many. You kinda disgust me tbh.