Mental Health May Depend on the Health of Your Gut Flora

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

When it comes to your mental health, your behavior, and even your mood, we tend to think that the brain is in charge. In reality, your gut may be calling the shots. In the 1800s and early 1900s, it was thought that wastes in your colon could produce infections that lead to depression and psychosis.

Widely accepted for a time, mental-health patients were often treated with colonic purges and bowel surgeries, but eventually this was regarded as quackery.

Today, research is bearing out what the scientists of yesteryear were already privy to – that your mental …read more

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