Do gut microbes control your personality? | Kathleen McAuliffe
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Biologist Kathleen McAuliffe dives into emerging research that explores how certain gut bacteria can influence major parts of who you are, from your personality to life-changing neurological disorders. This week we're revisiting a talk that invites you to learn more about how this ongoing clinical medical and pharmaceutical research might change how we treat disease — and discover the impact of your internal microbial makeup on your mood, weight and more.
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