Radio Report: Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Send Messages to Your Brain?

[7vNH]

Here is a link to an radio report (22:50) that talks a bit about gut bacteria and the role the microbiome plays in health. It goes beyond the title (...send messages to the brain) and covers other disease states, including Crohn's.

Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Send Messages to Your Brain?

 

[DJW]

It makes sense to me. Messages go to our brain from all over the body and back.

 

[xmdmom]

Scientists have wondered if fecal transplants might create changes in personality, mood or appetite.

Possible Other Consequences of Fecal Transplant
What other traits might be transmitted with a fecal transplant?
Obviously, lifestyle, personal behavior, and sense of wellbeing
are dependent on regularity, but other behavioral changes
may also. For example, the composition of the gut flora in
Drosophila is influenced by diet, as in humans, and transfer of
the gut flora to germ-free recipients also transferred the mating
preferences of the flies, whereas antibiotic treatment of the flies
caused them to lose their mating preferences.12 Human gut flora
also may determine our appetites, scent, and possibly moods
(reviewed in13).

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice & Volume 19, Number 4, July 2011 Fecal Transplants Transfer More Than Microbiota

 

[JMC]

Scientists have wondered if fecal transplants might create changes in personality, mood or appetite.

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice & Volume 19, Number 4, July 2011 Fecal Transplants Transfer More Than Microbiota

Cool, can I have a transplant from a happy, horny, sexy person then! :ylol2:

 

[Nancye50]

Intriguing!

 

[wild_one353]

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09/gut-feeling.aspx

 

[7vNH]

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/09/gut-feeling.aspx

With a sophisticated neural network transmitting messages from trillions of bacteria, the brain in your gut exerts a powerful influence over the one in your head, new research suggests.

American Psychological Association
September 2012

Thanks! Interesting addition to the thread.