With so much effort to find alternatives to antibiotics, we wanted to share this article describing the brain-gut connection. A team of researchers recently found that our guts may harbor evidence of difficult life experiences many years after the fact, changing everything from how we digest food to how we process stress.
Source: Science of US, June 1, 2017.
Even more than the science of the gut on its own, the science of how it affects the brain is still in its infancy. Instead of presenting firm conclusions, this study is meant to open up the field and lay a foundation on which future researchers can build.
INSIGHTS: It is fortunate that human research parallels animal health research in this area of the microbiome. We can only hope the results will prove complementary.