Your microbiome and you

[steingar]

An article from the The New York Times discussing your microbiome (all the little micro-critters on your body) and how it my actually control your behavior.

 

[wsuffa]

Well, at least it didn't go into fecal transplants....

 

[ClimbnSink]

http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2011/05/demon-within-part-iii.html?m=1
We're just fleshbots for bugs and RNA to drive.

 

[azure]

I didn't read that whole article, so not sure if they mentioned something I read elsewhere quite recently, which is that some recent research has implicated environmentally induced changes to the microbiome in the gut in triggering certain autoimmune diseases (can't remember if it was specifically RA or lupus).

 

[JoeSelch]

I didn't read that whole article, so not sure if they mentioned something I read elsewhere quite recently, which is that some recent research has implicated environmentally induced changes to the microbiome in the gut in triggering certain autoimmune diseases (can't remember if it was specifically RA or lupus).

Certainly wouldn't be surprised...