More Than a Gut Feeling: How Gut Microbiome Influences Mental Health

Science reveals the invisible world inside us, the microbiome, profoundly affects mental health, immunity, and much more

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Can our tiny internal world of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms hold greater significance than we think when it comes to mental health?

Current researchers think so, and so did Hippocrates, who famously said about 2,500 years ago that “all disease begins in the gut.”