Posted by SLS on September 16, 2014, at 15:58:13
In reply to Re: Can an antibiotic trigger depression? » linkadge, posted by former poster on September 15, 2014, at 22:19:00
Hi.
> ---"I think there is some beneficial mood effects to certain bacteria"---
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> Intriguing comment there. I will search for data on that. I have been taking some probiotics with 8 beneficial strans for a month or more. Not sure if it has helped. Do you know what strain to look for that will benefit mood?It is not beyond reason. You know, there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than there are human cells. Yuck. It does happen that certain intestinal bacteria secrete hormones that change the function of the CNS. They can even determine food preferences. Probiotic bacteria can help reduce inflammation. This alone could serve as a rationale to further explore the association between bacteria and depression.
One possibility that occurs to me is that a noxious bacterium might induce a "leaky gut", and trigger inflammatory events in the brain that contribute to depression. Eating probiotics (yogurt) might shift the populations of bacterial species such that the good ones outnumber the bad ones, mitigating a leaky gut, reducing inflammation, and thus ameliorating depression.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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