This is a wild read
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43815370
QuoteProf John Cryan told the BBC: "We were very surprised that you could, by just taking microbiome samples, reproduce many of the features of a depressed individual in a rat."
BBC has a whole series on the "second genome," so named because while there are 20,000 genes in the human genome, the typical human microbiome has 2-20 million genes and the cells in our microbiome make up more than half the cells in our bodies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zgykv
Very interesting.
We have a household member on this at the mo, just starting out. Learning how the food we eat changes how we feel:
https://joinzoe.com/learn/category/nutrition/blood-sugar
blood sugar is a big part, but stool samples taken too.
Keto!
2020: Ketogenic Diets Alter Gut Microbiome in Humans, Mice | UC San Francisco
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417466/ketogenic-diets-alter-gut-microbiome-humans-mice
2019: Ketogenic Diet and Microbiota: Friends or Enemies? - PMC
(Fodmaps mentioned)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678592/