We owe our first confirmation of the fact that stress and emotions affect our digestive processes to the bad temper of a French-Canadian trapper.
The human gut is home to trillions of microbes, which modulate health and disease.
A recent study shows that gut flora imbalance before spinal cord injury impairs functional recovery and aggravates neuropathology. On the other hand, feeding mice probiotics after a spinal cord injury confers neuroprotection and improves functional recovery.
Changes in the gut microbiota correlate with changes in the expression of immune defence genes in patients suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS), a study published in Nature Communications reports.
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