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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).

  More than 90% of the serotonin in your body is produced in your gut in a process that is regulated by bacteria. This serotonin not only aids in digestion, but interacts with nerves that communicate with the central nervous system to alter mood and mental health

  If you experience severe depression under antibiotics, you might try to take some probiotic supplements that have strains including Lactobacillus and Streptococcus along with a helping of some soluble fiber.

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  • icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The serotonin in your gut can’t pass through the gut-blood barrier, and therefore never reaches your brain, so it has no effect whatsoever on your ability to feel happy.

    Unripe bananas are full of serotonin (which breaks down to melotonin as they ripen), but the only effect that has on your body is to give you diarrhoea.

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      serotonin in your gut can’t pass through the gut-blood barrier

      I didn’t claim that it passed through the gut-blood barrier or directly influenced your cns. I said that it interacts with nerves that communicate with your central nervous system, this two way system is called the gut-brain axis.

      has no effect whatsoever on your ability to feel happy

      I mean, this is just incorrect .

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      • icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sorry, I wasn’t trying to claim that your gut biome doesn’t effect your mood, just that the serotonin in your gut isn’t making it’s easy to the serotonin receptors in your brain that make you feel happy

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• MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics

  Or just that nuking gut bacteria messes with the gut brain axis…

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  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I do like that the brain gives itself immune privilege and the blood brain barrier, it’s like “miss me with that shit” haha

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• janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  babe wake up new genre of existential crisis just dropped

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Here’s my out-there take on consciousness:
  Picture a surface of incredibly high but stable energies, like the one on a pulsar. Now imagine that those energies manage to shake a fundamental consciousness field hard enough at a large enough scale, that virtual consciousness and anti-consciousness pairs constantly bubble in and out of existence.

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