Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MoodBugs (How our gut microbes influence how we feel – bacterial metabolites and inflammation as mediators of human microbiota-affect relationships)

Do our gut microbes influence our emotions? This sounded far-fetched a decade ago, but rodent research has shown thatthe microbial ecosystem in the gut (the gut microbiota) causally impacts affective processes. The underlying microbiota-gut-brainsignalling mechanisms include...