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Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?

It's obvious biological organisms are affected by electro-mechanical-gravitational-chemical-thermal and who knows what else stimuli.

[Fungi]

Only if it is a fungus and you believe everything you read.

[Pelham]

Drink your kefir...

[Cowboy Bob]

Lyte’s interest was not in the feces per se but in the hidden form of life they harbor.

I believe that the consumption of feces has in impact on your mood. It makes you feel fabulous!

[Carthego delenda est]

Ah yes, but can your mood explain your bacteria?

[Jemian]

Well, I can certainly affirm that if it is giardia or amoeba in my gut, I am NOT in a GOOD MOOD! But, cramps, vomiting and diarrhea are definitely good mood killers.

[ETL]

No, of course they can’t! They’re just simple organisms. They can’t talk!

[ETL]

...or think.

[ETL]

You know why you're a such a cranky SOB today.
Well, it's because..."

[ETL]

You're feeling like crap because you were out drinking
all friggin night!

[LibWhacker]

Mmmm, monkey feces! Makes me happy as bug in a rug.

WTF??? Somebody's trying to sell us a bill of goods. Probably liberals, as usual. Here, eat this monkey feces. It'll pick you right up. Black is white. Good is bad. Bad is good. Want some cat feces? Two bucks.

[Berlin_Freeper]

I have no mood.

[Organic Panic]

The filthy bacterial infection in the white house and DC has effected my mood in a profoundly negative way.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

This explains why I sometimes hear voices commanding me to kill, maim, and eat more chocolate.

[Sherman Logan]

Micro-organisms in our gut secrete a profound number of chemicals

I've never liked the NYT's politics, but they used to be able to use words correctly.

1. Having, showing, or requiring great insight or understanding: a profound thinker; a profound analysis.

2. Deeply felt or held; intense: profound contempt; a profound conviction.

3. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching: profound social changes.

4. Unqualified or unbroken: a profound silence; profound sleep.

5. Situated at, extending to, or coming from a great depth; deep: a profound chasm.

[Sherman Logan]

Toxoplasmosis seems to cause some profound personality changes.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fatal-attraction/

That's a proper use of the word.

[Sherman Logan]

The digestive tube of a monkey, like that of all vertebrates, contains vast quantities of what biologists call gut microbiota.

Never seen the digestive system described as a tube before.

[Islander7]

Can the Bacteria in Your Gut Explain Your Mood?

No, but the gases they produce seem to effect the mood of everyone near me.

[Yardstick]

If the gut microbiome ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

[petercooper]

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