The millions of bacteria in the visceral organs are decisive for health, including mental health. It is discussed in the Corriere Salute on newsstands on Thursday 23 November
We are publishing a preview of an article in the new Corriere Salute. You can read the full text on the free issue on newsstands on Thursday 23 December or in Pdf on the Digital Edition of Corriere della Sera.
I wonder if the bacteria that live in our intestines like panettone or pandoro. If we had the chance we should ask him, to have a good chance to spend the Christmas holidays without the mood on the ground. Because it is now more and more evident that the well-being, psychological and not only that, it passes by microbiota, the mass of germs that populates the intestine: hundreds of species for billions of microorganisms, which all together are estimated to account for about one to two kilos of our weight. In short, we have a whole world in our belly and we must take care of it if we want to live peacefully: i90 percent of serotonin, the happiness neurotransmitter that is in short supply in the case of depression, produced in the intestine through bacteria-modulated processes and research recently published on Scientific Report, for example, has shown in mice that dysbiosis, or an alteration of the populations of intestinal bacteria, is associated with a deficiency of serotonin transport molecules essential for the regulation of mood.
There is more: as it explains Antonio Gasbarrini, director of the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome: If the microbiota of patients with depression is transplanted into mice, the animals develop the disease; if the donor is a person with autism, the animal develops the stereotypical behaviors typical of the disorder. So much so that there is talk of “psychobiota” and the possibility of modulating the microbiota in a positive way to deal with neurological and psychiatric diseases.
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