Scott C Anderson

Pregnant Moms Need Pampering Pregnant mothers, like all of us, are stressed by modern life. This can have a long-term impact on their kids. Here are some tips for mitigating the stress.

Pregnant women who are stressed can suffer from an impaired microbiome. That can be passed down to their babies, affecting their weight, mood, and attitude, often into their teens or later.
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Can Gut Microbes Improve Postpartum Depression? Emerging research suggests that a bacteria found in yogurt could improve maternal mood.

Can a microbe help with postpartum depression? Learn more about a bacterium that improves gut health, soothes the immune system, reduces cortisol and boosts oxytocin.
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OCD and the Gut-Brain Axis Could Your Gut Flora Be Fueling OCD?

The gut-brain axis explains the astonishing connections between the microbes that live in your gut and your brain issues, including OCD. When your gut microbes are out of balance, your mood may suffer, and your OCD may worsen.
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This is such a heartbreaking message, but it’s also so true.
Stress directly affects the mother’s behavior, and as a result, stress is passed on to the next generation like a baton.
The biological mechanism behind this is so cruel, and it also reminds us how important stress management is

Can Gut Microbes Improve Postpartum Depression? A common microbe, found in yogurt, could improve mothers' moods after birth, research suggests—potentially helping ward off postpartum depression.

Stressed moms have higher levels of cortisol, but also lower levels of oxytocin, the “cuddle hormone.” This one-two punch affects rat moms so deeply that they stop licking their pups. In that way, moms transfer stress to their pups.
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Autism, Inflammation, and the Gut-Brain Axis Inflammation may play a surprising role in autistic behavior.

Is there is a microbial fingerprint of autism? By analyzing oral microbes, researchers can predict whether or not a child will develop autism with 80 percent accuracy.
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Even Kidneys Have a Microbiome Good microbes in your kidneys can prevent kidney stones. Bad diet and antibiotics may encourage them.

Got kidney stones? Your gut microbes may have something to do with that.
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A Surprising Fix for a Personality-Changing Liver Disease “Our bodies have a finely tuned, built-in detoxifying system: It's called our liver, and it can detoxify our bodies better than any cleanse or fast.” —Harley Pasternak

What a fecal transplant lacks in dignity, it makes up for in efficacy.
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Is Your Gut Sabotaging Your Meds? Part 1 The state of your gut has a surprising impact on your meds—and vice versa.

Variations in gut microbiome composition may influence drug metabolism, potentially explaining why some patients respond better to treatment than others. It may not be sufficient to test drugs without considering the microbiome.
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Stress Eating and the Microbiome Can you treat eating disorders with a microbiome-friendly diet?

I’ve been stress eating since the election. It turns out that gut microbes play a major role in stress eating. That’s actually great, because we have some control over our microbiome. Ready for some cool science?
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Stress Eating and the Microbiome Can you treat eating disorders with a microbiome-friendly diet?

Gut microbes play a major role in stress eating. That’s great because we have some control over our microbiome. Want to learn more?
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We Are Jailing Scientists Now Scientist Kseniya Petrova has spent 3 months in a detention center in Louisiana. It’s about to get worse.

It’s June 6, and Harvard scientist Kseniya Petrova is still in detention in Louisiana. This is a gift from Trump to Putin and a blow to Harvard and Alzheimer’s research. How can you help?
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What Juicing Does to Your Brain Is it time to retire your juicer?

Juicing is a health-food staple, but what is it doing to the gut-brain axis?
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4 Scary Food Additives Why you don't keep carboxymethylcellulose in your kitchen.

Food additives may not have a big effect on human biology, but some of them kill beneficial bacteria in the gut. Here’s what to look out for:
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What Trump is Doing to Your Colon Presidential chaos creates anxiety that can affect your gut microbiome.

Trump affects your gut-brain axis by stressing you with his flip-flopping. Here are some hacks to help.
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We Are Jailing Scientists Now Scientist Kseniya Petrova has spent 3 months in a detention center in Louisiana. It’s about to get worse.

It’s May 31, and Harvard scientist Kseniya Petrova is still in detention in Louisiana. This is a gift from Trump to Putin and a blow to Harvard and Alzheimer’s research. A total outrage. Here are some tips to help.
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What Trump is Doing to Your Colon Presidential chaos creates anxiety that can affect your gut microbiome.

As Trump changes his mind on an hourly basis, flinging America around like a dog with a chew toy, we are subject to uncertainty and loss of control. This is a sure path to anxiety and gut issues.
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We Are Jailing Scientists Now Scientist Kseniya Petrova has spent 3 months in a detention center in Louisiana. It’s about to get worse.

Her Harvard supervisor says Petrova is "spectacular, the best I've ever seen in 20 years at Harvard." Without her, the research has been put on hold. What a victory for the Trump administration.
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What Trump is Doing to Your Colon Presidential chaos creates anxiety that can affect your gut microbiome.

As Trump changes his mind on an hourly basis, flinging America around like a dog with a chew toy, we are subject to uncertainty and loss of control. This is a sure path to anxiety and gut issues.
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Addiction and the Gut-Brain Axis Addiction can be fostered and exacerbated by a poor gut microbiota.

Addiction has a connection to your gut microbes. This weird association is both intriguing and liberating.

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Early life stress can leave deep scars, but a good microbiome can improve resilience.
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A Microbial Signature of Dementia Gut microbes are significantly different in people with cognitive impairments.

People with fewer and less-diverse gut microbes are more likely to have cognitive impairment, including dementia and Alzheimer’s.
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Is Inflammation the Missing Link to Depression? For decades, depression has been ascribed to chemical deficiencies in the brain. New evidence suggests inflammation may cause depression.

The neuroinflammation model of depression reveals how inflammation can affect the brain, leading to fatigue, low energy, and difficulty thinking. Here's what that could mean for our understanding of depression and future treatments.

Improving Cognition in People with Schizophrenia A new class of antipsychotic medication can improve cognitive deficits in people with schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is associated with psychotic symptoms, withdrawn behaviors, and cognitive deficits. A new drug approved by the FDA could help in all 3 areas. Here's how.

Nature’s Ozempic There could be ways to get the same benefits, practically free.

A gut microbe has been identified that mimics the effects of Ozempic to mitigate diabetes and obesity. Here's how to take advantage of it.

How Stress Can Lead to Cancer Stress harms gut microbes that can slow tumor growth.

Continuous stress is a modern malady that our bodies are unprepared for. It can lead to anxiety, neurosis, depression, and even cancer.
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Defusing Armageddon, Part 1 Anger in America is at an all-time high, but why?

“Nut-picking” is the primary weapon of the culture wars, allowing each side to scorn the other side’s bozos with perfect justification. Are you not entertained?
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Does Meditation Mellow Your Microbes? People who meditate may have different gut microbes than those who don't.

Buddhist monks have different gut microbes than their non-meditating neighbors. What does that mean for you?
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Childhood Stress and Its Permanent Scars on Gut and Psyche Early life stress can leave a lasting mark on gut microbes and brain function, but better nutrients and diet may help mitigate the damage.

While scientists work to mitigate early life stress, some politicians attempt to worsen it.
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Childhood Stress and Its Permanent Scars on Gut and Psyche Early life stress can leave a lasting mark on gut microbes and brain function, but better nutrients and diet may help mitigate the damage.

What congress is about to do to our children can never be forgiven.
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