Why the Future of Mental Health Care Could Be in Your Gut

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The Wall Street Journal

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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A growing body of research suggests that the gut microbiome, the bacteria and other organisms that live in the gut, is linked to our mental health. But what if doctors could act on that information to treat mental illness by changing the gut microbiome? WSJ’s Alex Ossola talks to some of the top researchers in the emerging field of psychobiotics to explore how changing what’s in the gut could lead to future psychiatric treatments. Help is available: Reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) by dialing or texting 988. Further reading: Gut Bacteria Are Linked to Depression What Is Your Microbiome? A Wellness Trend Taking On Post-Covid Urgency Modern Life Is Messing With Our Microbiomes, but Science Is Fighting Back Diets Engineered to Work With Your Microbiome Are Latest Startup Craze Those Probiotics May Actually Be Hurting Your ‘Gut Health’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What happens now?
0:01.2	What happens now?
0:02.8	How will I cope?
0:04.2	How will I cope?
0:06.0	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer
0:08.7	to people you know.
0:10.2	You just want to talk to someone who knows how you feel.
0:14.9	That's why I joined the Macmillan Online Community.
0:18.5	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:23.0	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help.
0:26.7	To join us, search Macmillan Online Community.
0:33.1	Meet Jane Dudley.
0:34.6	I'm 40 years old and I live in the middle of nowhere
0:37.9	in a tiny little rural town in Australia called Kulatai.
0:41.6	These days, she's spent a lot of her time gardening
0:43.9	and making her own yogurt.
0:45.4	But a decade ago, she says the life she's living now
0:48.0	didn't seem possible.
0:49.5	Starting from about age 16, she says she experienced
0:52.3	debilitating symptoms of mental illness.
0:55.4	She says she would spend most of her year feeling
0:57.4	depressed in her spurs with manic behavior.
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