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Do Gut Bacteria Make a Second Home in Our Brains?

Summary by Dr. Joseph Mercola
  • November 12, 2018

Neuroscientists say they’ve discovered a road that gut bacteria travel to the brain, where they might be setting up housekeeping to influence brain processes and, possibly, the course of neurological disease in your body. While it was previously believed that all microbes, including those from the gut, have to break through the blood-brain barrier to affect the brain, the new findings show that the path to the brain may possibly include blood vessels or even nerves coming from the gut...