Microbiology and Neuroscience

Gut-Based Brains

How the Gut Microbiome can Inform Neurological Patterns

Can you tell me what these 👆🏾 two body parts have in common? You could say that they are both organs/a complex of organs, they are both complex structures, or they are both vital in the human body.

How about these two?

What do neurons and food we eat have to do with each other? Well, there’s a lot more to do than most would think!

However, there’s something called the gut microbiome in the field of neurobiology, which is one of my current interests. The gut microbiome has shown huge potential in influencing neurological conditions.

If you’re a germaphobe, it might be unsettling that there are microbes all around us, and especially with the current pandemic, a lot of us are sweating bullets when we hear about anything that sounds remotely like bacteria or disease.

However, this is way more exciting.

Before we hope into it, here are a couple of technical research papers that I recommend on this topic: