Research shows that exercise improves your microbiota, boosting your mood and cognitive abilities. Time to get off the sofa.
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How Your Gut Microbes Keep Your Brain Young
Your gut microbes may help to prevent cognitive decline. Here’s what you can do to build a healthy microbiota that will improve cognition and memory.
Coronavirus drives us to drink and our microbes are enablers
Can a healthier gut microbiota help us to drink less? COVID-19 is making some people drink more, but our gut microbiota may be able to moderate it. Here are some tips for a healthier and happier gut.
Not Okay, Boomer
The baby-boom generation has lower cognitive scores than their parents. What’s happening?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-microbe/202008/not-okay-boomer
Be Good to Your Microbes, You’re Probably Stuck with Them
For better or worse, gut microbes form long-lived cultures in your gut that can make you indefinitely healthy or sick. Here are some tips to shift the odds in your favor.
Screams and Giggles to Beat the Pandemic
Laughter and gasps may help us deal with COVID-19. Research suggests that both horror and humor can make us more resilient to the coronavirus.
Can Caged Microbes Help Your Kidneys?
A bacterial cage you can swallow processes waste like a miniature kidney.
Scientists have created a polymer cage full of bacteria that can process metabolic wastes, alleviating kidney disease and its attendant depression.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-microbe/202007/can-caged-microbes-help-your-kidneys
New Hope for Parkinson’s Patients
Tantalizing new studies point to a potential treatment for Parkinson’s. These three studies shed light on how Parkinson’s starts and how inducing the growth of new nerve cells may improve symptoms.
Can Gut Microbes Predict COVID-19 Severity?
Why does COVID-19 kill some and spare others? The key may lie in your gut. A healthy gut microbiome might improve COVID-19 outcomes.
On the Front Lines of the Pandemic
As hospitals struggle, healthcare workers become anxious and depressed. With a little TLC, we can help them cope.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-microbe/202004/the-front-lines-the-pandemic