BS: you are what you eat !

Subject: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 03:50 AM

Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time

Bacteria have been discovered in our guts that depend on one of our brain chemicals for survival. These bacteria consume GABA, a molecule crucial for calming the brain, and the fact that they gobble it up could help explain why the gut microbiome seems to affect mood.

Tip of the iceberg. I am sure were sort of knew this all along, but the evidence is more than apocryphal now.

Curry has a lot to answer for!

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: JHW
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 06:25 AM

My sister always comes in from work needing immediate food. I got her one of those pretend old signs, now hung in her kitchen.

'If you are what you eat I must be Fast, Easy and Cheap'

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Senoufou
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 07:00 AM

Those bacteria may be in our gut because they always HAVE been there, from birth. So it may not have anything to do with what we eat. They are also probably beneficial to us.
As I understand it, we are a veritable walking zoo of all sorts of microbes, bacteria and other beasties, most of which are part of the balance of our systems. Even tiny eyelash mites, which obligingly munch up the detritus on our eyelids.
I've also heard that intestinal worms (still endemic almost everywhere in W Africa) prevent all kinds of allergies such as asthma and eczema. No idea how they do this. And not in my view an acceptable remedy for the latter!

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 09:29 AM

I am a man, therefore I must be a cannibal, although I can't remember eating any.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 09:51 AM

5 min of a NZ tv prog talking about it
Heather Hendrickson talking to Mark Sainsbury

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 09:56 AM

One of my first ever LPs [my mum saw it very cheap in Woolworths sale, and thought I might like it...???]

was the soundtrack to the movie "You Are What You Eat (1968)"

Never seen the movie, as it seems to have completely vanished into oblivion;
but if it was anywhere near as trippy hippy freak-out as the LP music sounded to my innocent 12 year old ears...??????? 😎

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 10:07 AM

I am what I eat, which is why I'm not a vegetarian.

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 10:20 AM

well f@ck me... it's on youtube....

"You Are What You Eat (1968)"



btw.. if I'm what I eat, that's why I must be such a cheeky c@nt..... ??

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 10:50 AM

I believe we catch our gut bacteria after birth - after all, we don't need them till we're eating food rather than getting direct nutrients from breast milk - but the idea that it's neurotransmitters that they're digesting blows my mind... but not my stomach. Ew.

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Jul 16 - 11:10 AM

That's why I don't eat pizza! (most of the time)

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Jul 16 - 04:49 AM

Those bacteria may be in our gut because they always HAVE been there, from birth.

The point of the article in the New Scientist was to highlight that if you feed that particular bacterium with their favourite foodstuff, the strain make you feel chilled, or if they are having difficulty due to competing bacteria dominating &/or gastric difficulties (like penicillin doses etc) you are less settled in the mind.

I can't link to an article unless you have a subscription.
Notably this was research on mice and the correlation of food & bacterium was cut if the vagus nerve is severed. Thus proving the link.

And more generally there are other foodstuffs and bacteria that interact to produce moods - good or other. I am sure Macdonald are ahead of the game on this one.

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Jul 16 - 04:58 AM

Caesarian birth is reckoned to have all sorts of consequences on gut bacteria and problems in adulthood. Just think of all the bacteria floating around the area at normal birth, and not present in caesarian section.
There is such a procedure as fecal transplant - giving adults the gut flora of a healthy individual. The mix of gut flora can and does vary with age and other influences. Not everyone has an excess of Helicobacter pylori, unless you have an ulcer! (the reverse is not necessarilly true).

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 16 - 12:57 PM

Good thing that Potatos are full of GABA.

The crap in our head is relative to the crap in our guts.

Gut feelings also come from neurons physically located at our plexis

and is a large fraction of all of our neurons that live in our head.

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Jul 16 - 09:07 PM

If so, I have just become a little bowl of mocha coffee icecream with grade B maple syrup.

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: BobL
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 03:07 AM

Oooh, you are a sweetie!

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 01:23 PM

Avocado Pear

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 01:42 PM

I won't eat people!
I won't eat people!
Eatin' people is wrong!

(to a boogie-woogie bass line)

Subject: RE: BS: you are what you eat !
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Jul 16 - 03:54 PM

I must be one giant walking crumpet. And about a ton of butter.