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Microbes may hold the key to brain evolution (news.northwestern.edu)

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>A groundbreaking new study from Northwestern University reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how mammals with larger brains evolved to meet the intense energy demands required to support brain growth and maintenance. The new study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides the first empirical data showing the direct role the gut microbiome plays in shaping differences in the way the brain functions across different primate species.

Archive: https://archive.today/HkIJk From the post: >>A groundbreaking new study from Northwestern University reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how mammals with larger brains evolved to meet the intense energy demands required to support brain growth and maintenance. The new study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides the first empirical data showing the direct role the gut microbiome plays in shaping differences in the way the brain functions across different primate species.

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There are some VERY beneficial bacteria in our guts that eat the food we feed them and as by-products provide us with vitamins and other wonderful nutrients that our bodies need to work at peak efficiency and performance. There are also microbes which change the pH of our bodies to be more alkaline, rob us of nutrients and overgrown harmful fungus like candida. Guess which group gets wiped out by antibiotics and which group thrives on sugars and junk food?

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