Depressed Poop Will Give You Depression

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Weird title I know, keep reading it will make sense πŸ˜‚πŸ’©



You have probably heard of all the research into the relationship between the gut microbiota and the brain and mental health blah blah.

Tldr, there's clearly a connection between the trillions of microbes living in our intestines and our brain development, function etc. Just do a Google search on brain-gut axis if you wish to learn more.



Anyways, let's get to the point of the post which is an interesting paper I stumbled upon today. What I found mostly interesting wasn't the results or the findings, just the methodology πŸ™ƒ

Tldr, they took poop from two groups. One heavily depressed and one healthy. And they transplanted that poop to a bunch of microbiota-deficient rats.

Yep, fecal transplant is a thing if you didn't know :)

Thirty four patients with major depression and 33 matched healthy controls were recruited.

A Fecal Microbiota transplantation was prepared from a sub group of depressed patients and controls and transferred by oral gavage to a microbiota-deficient rat model.

And not surprisingly the rats receiving the depressed poop got depression:

Fecal microbiota transplantation from depressed patients to microbiota-depleted rats can induce behavioural and physiological features characteristic of depression in the recipient animals, including anhedonia and anxiety-like behaviours, as well as alterations in tryptophan metabolism

So yeah, more solid proof for the whole brain - gut thing.

Who knows... Maybe depression is one healthy fecal transplant away from getting treated πŸ™ƒπŸ’©πŸ˜‚

Yeah probably not πŸ˜‚

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That deserves some !DOOK

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Learn all about this shit in the toilet paper! πŸ’©

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Taking a dump is depressing, what a waste of time?

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But transplanting it to another butthole? Now that can be fun fren

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If it works the other way about and I'm depressed I'll stay depressed rather than get a transplant!

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Aha! I sense a lucrative opportunity for a motivated entrepreneur since there are so many downtrodden and depressed individuals

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you know I actually wanted to say something; but at this time, am thinking

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It's an interesting study, and it proves the microbiome in the gut is essential to our health. In a few years they won't give you Prozac, they'll give you a gut bacteria transplant!
!DUO

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Fecal transplanted are the future of medicine πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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I heard already of that poop planting, they used to do it on humans back in the days, disgusting lol

They sell a lot of integrators to improve microbiote

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It's a weird study but its interesting to see them feed it to rats. I do think that the sample size is too small though.

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So we need to smile more when doing number 2 πŸ˜… ?

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A dookie a day keeps the depression away ?

I may have misunderstood this πŸ˜…

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First you tell us about contagious cancer, and now contagious depression. Washing out hands becomes an even more compelling activity :))

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Lmao, you can never be careful enough πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ’©

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yes.. quite the title. :P

As someone who is bipolar and just came off a big depressed period, that is encouraging news indeed. πŸ˜‰πŸ€™

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