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Herbsprout is a webblog and podcast dedicated to sharing the health benefits of herbs, food, innovations related to our gut microbiome. Herbsprout seeks to bridge the vast chasm dividing the mainstream medical community and alternative medicine.

Links in relationships also link gut bacteria

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Links in relationships also link...
In the last Herbsprout blog, we learned about the interchange of gut microbes between pets and their owners. This blog is taken from Psychology Today. Though lacking the scientific references, one can safely assume what applies to humans and their pets also applies person to person.

We begin with proximity. Proximity to peers plays a role in the microbial content of our gut. Gut microbiome links in family relationships begin at early childhood when the mother’s microbiome influences the gut microbiota of the baby, and continues throughout life, according to an August 09 2023 article in Psychology Today.

People who live with us or are relatively close to us impact the shape of our gut, skin, and oral microbiomes, say the Psychology Today article. This includes family members, friends, and neighbors (1).

Diseases associated with microbiome dysfunction, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cognitive disorders, could be influenced by the microbiomes of those around us.

For instance, some diseases that were not previously found communicable have now been considered to be at least partially communicable, such as diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease (1).

The downside of these influences however, include antibiotic resistance that develops in a common community due in part to their micriobial commonalities, as warned by Alexander Fleming in 1945 in his Nobel acceptance speech (2).

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-behavioral-microbiome/202308/microbiome-new-criteria-for-selecting-a-partner?amp

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4939477/

 

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