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Given the evident link between gut bacteria and mental health, it may be that we'll see diet as a component of psychiatric care in the future. ( http://www.nature.com/news/gut-brain-link-grabs-neuroscienti... )
It would be interesting to hear both why the chose a "high fat-high sugar" diet and to see further research that did more isolated tests in the vein of "high carb", "high fat" and "high protein" instead of combinations of them. Also, what are the implications of altered gut makeup after adopting these diets? Surely we could come up with experiments to measure metabolism and behavior as a result of the altered gut bac…
Given the evident link between gut bacteria and mental health, it may be that we'll see diet as a component of psychiatric care in the future. ( http://www.nature.com/news/gut-brain-link-grabs-neuroscienti... )
Here is a case where the research is lagging the knowledge base. Every holistic MD has, for decades, preached eating foods enriched with healthy bacteria. What we need now is research that looks at outcomes.
These results indicate that you can eat anything, not just foods enriched with bacteria like probiotic yogurt (which has questionable benefits in itself http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6180/do-probioti... ), and observe a change in gut microbiota. "Turnbaugh’s team found that switching mice to a high-sugar, high-fat diet reshaped the abundance of the community of microbes in the gut to a new, stable makeu…
When babies are born, their gut is sterile before it gets colonized from outside. The diet definitely can affect which strain will outgrow others, but all gut bacteria is exogenous.
[0] http://www.whitemountainfoods.com/YogurtProductPage.html
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These results indicate that you can eat anything, not just foods enriched with bacteria like probiotic yogurt (which has questionable benefits in itself http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6180/do-probioti... ), and observe a change in gut microbiota. "Turnbaugh’s team found that switching mice to a high-sugar, high-fat diet reshaped the abundance of the community of microbes in the gut to a new, stable makeu…
Not sure I follow - is there a suggestion that you can only eat 'foods enriched with bacteria like probiotic yogurt'? I would think the less questionable benefits of eating yogurt would be calcium and protein, at the very least. This study didn't try to feed any sort of special 'probiotic' foods to the mice.
Given the evident link between gut bacteria and mental health, it may be that we'll see diet as a component of psychiatric care in the future. ( http://www.nature.com/news/gut-brain-link-grabs-neuroscienti... )
Indeed, which adds to the argument that so called "mental" health problems are not actually mental. Many diseases cause some mental symptoms and get wrongly labelled as mental illnesses, when I dispute that there is such a thing.
Here is a case where the research is lagging the knowledge base. Every holistic MD has, for decades, preached eating foods enriched with healthy bacteria. What we need now is research that looks at outcomes.
Study seems to follow common-sense - change the nutrients ingested and different gut bacteria will flourish. What I'm really interested in is which types of bacteria create a feedback loop by releasing chemicals/hormones to increase hunger or cravings for specific foods. Definitely not an easy thing to determine given all the variables, but it seems very likely based on the other studies showing bacteria can promote…
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Indeed, which adds to the argument that so called "mental" health problems are not actually mental. Many diseases cause some mental symptoms and get wrongly labelled as mental illnesses, when I dispute that there is such a thing.
You dispute that mental illness is a thing that exists?
Edit: It is ok to downvote if you disagree. But think what it says about you if you are downvoting facts.