EP 29: Your Brain Problems Are Usually Not Brain Problems - Dr. Shawn Talbott
Take a lean mouse and give it the gut bacteria of an obese mouse, and it doesn’t just get fat. It starts behaving like an obese mouse. It eats more. It steals food from its littermates. It stops getting on the exercise wheel. Every attribute transfers, not just the metabolic ones.
Do the same with a depressed mouse and a healthy one, and the healthy one becomes depressed. Run it in the other direction with humans — a non-depressed person’s microbiome into someone with depression — and the depression lifts.
Dr. Shawn Talbott has spent his career on what that means for the rest of us. He’s a…
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