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Category: Gut-brain
5 Common Holiday Practices That Are Making You Sick
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”–Aesop. Ah, the holidays are upon us! Such a relaxing and carefree time. We get to spend some quality time with our creepy uncle and mischievous cousins. Okay, maybe there is a little stress. But it isn’t just these external influences that stress us out.…
Flavonoids Keep Your Brain Young
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“Wisdom is wasted on the old, and youth is wasted on the young.” ― George Bernard Shaw. The gut-brain connection is a story that just keeps giving. The idea that gut microbes could affect your mood and cognition is startling and potentially very useful. The microbes that improve your mood are called psychobiotics. Microbes eat prebiotics, which include…
Do Microbes Make Us Social?
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“Microbes may have influenced the evolution of the social brain and behavior as a means to propagate their own genetic material.” —John Cryan. Do our gut microbes make us party animals? It sounds preposterous, but nothing beats socializing when it comes to spreading microbes. And, perhaps, nothing beats microbes when it comes to making us…
Psychobiotics: A Revolution in Psychiatry
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“If microbes are controlling the brain, then microbes are controlling everything.” –John Cryan. What are psychobiotics? Despite their somewhat sinister-sounding name, psychobiotics are probiotics and prebiotics that can lift your mood and decrease anxiety. The word was coined by Psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Ted Dinan and colleague John Cryan, Chair of Anatomy and Neuroscience at University College Cork,…