Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind

There are more bacterial cells in & on your body than there are human cells! Ten times as many, according to one estimate.¹ Bacteria are much smaller than the cells of your body, so bacteria have much less mass & take up much less space.

Now it appears they have psychoactive effects as well:

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¹ Scientific American: “Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones”, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones/

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