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People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Yes technically, but… I was gonna say “how would you even act on that?” but decided I’d prefer not to know.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As someone who does know how transplanting gut biome works... yea, you absolutely don't want to know.

Just know that a "Stool Bank", which is a facility which holds samples of fecal matter tested to ensure no transferable disease, is a real thing that exists and is relevant to this discussion.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Shit put into a pill that you swallow.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I think that is literally how it’s done today.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

yeah it is, it's an odd concept to wrap your head around.

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