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This is interesting. I know about the health benefits of vegetarian/vegan diets, but I didn't consider the gut flora. I know little overall of what goes on there. But I did just read some interesting things from this article:

BBC said:

The brain and gut have a strong, two-way communication system referred to as the gut–brain axis. Each are essential to the other – studies have found that brain development is abnormal in the absence of the gut microbiome. However, a recent review stated that research hasn’t yet figured out which exact gut bacterium are crucial for brain development.

Further investigation is uncovering how interlinked the gut is to the brain, however, including our mood and mental health, says Katerina Johnson, a researcher of the microbiome-gut-brain axis at the University of Oxford.

"Research shows that if we take gut bacteria from depressed humans and colonise the guts of mice with it, the mice show changes in their behaviour and physiology that are characteristic of depression," she says.

Gut microbes can produce most of the neurotransmitters found in the human brain, including serotonin, which plays a key role in regulating mood. It is hoped that scientists will soon be able to understand how microbes can be used to produce neurotransmitters to treat psychiatric and neurologic disorders liked to our microbiomes, including Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. 

BBC said:

We’ve also started to glimpse how gut microbes can influence behaviour. Some studies, largely conducted in animals, for example, suggest that certain types can affect brain chemistry and behaviour to make animals act more socially.

Germ-free animals who've had no exposure to microbes, on the other hand, have shown deficits in social behaviour, and researchers have found that this can be restored by adding specific types of bacteria such as Lactobacillus, often found in yoghurt, according to Johnson.

Tryptamine said: 

This is interesting. I know about the health benefits of vegetarian/vegan diets, but I didn't consider the gut flora. I know little overall of what goes on there. But I did just read some interesting things from this article:

BBC said:

The brain and gut have a strong, two-way communication system referred to as the gut–brain axis. Each are essential to the other – studies have found that brain development is abnormal in the absence of the gut microbiome. However, a recent review stated that research hasn’t yet figured out which exact gut bacterium are crucial for brain development.

Further investigation is uncovering how interlinked the gut is to the brain, however, including our mood and mental health, says Katerina Johnson, a researcher of the microbiome-gut-brain axis at the University of Oxford.

"Research shows that if we take gut bacteria from depressed humans and colonise the guts of mice with it, the mice show changes in their behaviour and physiology that are characteristic of depression," she says.

Gut microbes can produce most of the neurotransmitters found in the human brain, including serotonin, which plays a key role in regulating mood. It is hoped that scientists will soon be able to understand how microbes can be used to produce neurotransmitters to treat psychiatric and neurologic disorders liked to our microbiomes, including Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. 

BBC said:

We’ve also started to glimpse how gut microbes can influence behaviour. Some studies, largely conducted in animals, for example, suggest that certain types can affect brain chemistry and behaviour to make animals act more socially.

Germ-free animals who've had no exposure to microbes, on the other hand, have shown deficits in social behaviour, and researchers have found that this can be restored by adding specific types of bacteria such as Lactobacillus, often found in yoghurt, according to Johnson.

this is fascinating. although i kinda always knew people's brain was connected to their ass holes, serious though this is amazing stuff to think we are relying on a bacteria in our guts for brain development. and pizza i miss pizza

Yes! I read about these things as well. What you eat will have an impact in how you feel. It all seems so intuitive in hindsight, but the specifics are fascinating. Who would've thought you can enhance your quality of life by eating healthy and cutting out fastfood and artifical sugars? 

Bump for prettiestofflowers.

Prepare to become a farty pants! 

Shade said: 

Bump for prettiestofflowers.

Prepare to become a farty pants! 

 ya i think beans and legumes are what do that and I am only going to eat a small amount of those. I am somewhat allergic to lentils and soy

prettiestofflowers said: 

I am somewhat allergic to lentils and soy

 This is absolutely tragic.

Girl Meat said: 

prettiestofflowers said: 

I am somewhat allergic to lentils and soy

 This is absolutely tragic.

 Ik lol. I have a lot of mild food allergies it sucks. not enough to send me to the hospital but enough to make me feel itchy or just generally like shit