For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that probiotics have a direct
effect on brain chemistry under normal conditions.
For example, research earlier this year demonstrated that probiotics have a direct effect
on brain chemistry under normal conditions — in such a way that can impact your feelings of anxiety or depression.
These findings have more serious implications related to other recent
work on brain chemistry and cognitive disorders.
These drugs all have different and in some cases opposite
effects on brain chemistry, and yet they all show exactly the same response rate.
While educators have a strong appreciation of the importance of forming relationships with students, helping them develop a deeper knowledge of ACEs and their potential
impact on brain chemistry can help create a sense of urgency around implementing trauma - sensitive practices.
When our gut flora is unbalanced, it has a direct effect
on our brain chemistry via the vagus nerve and can lead to anxiety and depression.
The researchers also showed that regular feeding with the Lactobacillus strain caused changes in the expression of receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA in the mouse brain, which is the first time that it has been demonstrated that potential probiotics have a direct effect
on brain chemistry in normal situations.
However, other researchers — specifically, Dr. Rodney Ford, author of The Gluten Syndrome — have hypothesized that gluten exerts a direct depressive
influence on your brain chemistry, independent of malabsorption resulting from intestinal damage.
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The mood changes in PMS and PMDD are associated with fluctuations in the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which can wreak
havoc on our brain chemistry.
Then, add other influences like the broad use of technology and its
impact on our brain chemistry, our culture's bias toward extroversion, and our propensity for multitasking, and it all makes a pretty compelling case for why meditation is not easy.
Co-author Julia C. Basso, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Neural Science at New York University, commented, «The studies presented in this review clearly demonstrate that acute exercise has profound
effects on brain chemistry and physiology, which has important implications for cognitive enhancements in healthy populations and symptom remediation in clinical populations.»
Beneficial bacteria have a direct effect
on brain chemistry, transmitting mood - and behavior - regulating signals to your brain via your vagus nerve.
Pandey explained that early life exposure to alcohol can have not only long - lasting effects
on brain chemistry but also induce a predisposition to psychiatric problems such as alcohol abuse and anxiety disorders.
Probiotics have a direct effect
on brain chemistry, transmitting mood - and behavior - regulating signals to your brain via the vagus nerve, according to the latest research.
Probiotics have a significant effect
on brain chemistry, modulating mood - and behavior - regulating signals to your brain via the vagus nerve, according to research
Ketogenic diets are popular in the fitness world, and as one interpretation of the paleo diet, because of their tendency to alter the metabolic state of the body, their impact
on brain chemistry, and therefore, how they change the body's method (and specifically — the brain) of deriving its energy.
This is the first time that it has been demonstrated that potential probiotics have a direct effect
on brain chemistry — it is something that defintely warrants more research.
You can at least be forgiven for this very human response; renowned neuroscientist Helen Fisher told us last year that falling in love and cocaine both have a similar effect
on your brain chemistry.