People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)
from Pro@reddthat.com to science@mander.xyz on 16 Jun 00:05
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ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jun 00:59 next collapse

Does this mean that all the vermin in my local sewer are socially anxious too? Fuck, I didn’t mean to fuck all those little critters up too. Now I’ve got pooping anxiety haha

JackLSauce@lemmy.world on 16 Jun 01:15 next collapse

That’s pretty cool if that means a change in diet can be a viable treatment

xylol@leminal.space on 16 Jun 05:17 collapse

Or a stool transplant

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Jun 12:16 collapse

Just gotta be full of the right shit

Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip on 16 Jun 02:48 next collapse

So… bugs in the ass?

AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works on 16 Jun 11:35 next collapse

Oh great, we’ve taken a perfectly good mouse and given it social anxiety! :(

(Sarcasm/joking aside, this is pretty neat and hopefully this research eventually ends up helping people with social anxiety)

deathbird@mander.xyz on 16 Jun 15:09 collapse

Further evidence that we’re all just billions of microbes standing on top of each other in a trench coat.