what if my sweets are made out of probiotic yoghurts and garlics

It is if your gut is filled with the gut bacteria that desire those foods and signal to the brain to give it more... the rest of you does suffer as a result though. These bacteria are not your friends, even if they make you eat chocolate, while they push out the bacteria that desire more nutritious foodstuffs.

How do drugs work then? Many are structurally similar to serotonin and are pretty effective when ingested (psilocybin, LSD, …).

Most of the neurotransmitters can't. That's like one of the things the blood brain barrier does - keeps the chemicals IN the brain as well.

Im not a neuroscientist nor endocrinologist but i dont think it's as simple as, your gut producing serotonin which travels to your brain and makes you happy.

I just googled this and found a pretty direct rebuttal:

The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional communication network that links the enteric and central nervous systems. This network is not only anatomical, but it extends to include endocrine, humoral, metabolic, and immune routes of communication as well. The autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and nerves within the gastrointestinal tract, all link the gut and the brain, allowing the brain to influence intestinal activities, including activity of functional immune effector cells; and the gut to influence mood, cognition, and mental health.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6469458/

As i said, I dont really know anything about this. However, there seems to be a large body of research supporting this hypothesis.

Not exactly related, but I think the typical conception of self being centered around the head at all is maybe just because that's where our eyes and ears are. Curious how deaf and blind people conceptualize the physical location of thier consciousness

if i cut my arm off am i still me? how many pieces of me can i remove and still be me? at what point do i remove too much and am no longer myself?

probably the point where i die from removing too much lol but assuming im kept alive somehow for that

So are you saying it's literally impossible even with future technology to put a medically preserved brain in a new body and have that be a person that can do stuff and you could talk to, or just that it wouldn't be the same person or consciousness somehow?

The former seems pretty out there as an idea. There are people whose brains are cut off from the rest of their nervous system and are still alive. The other connection the brain has to the body is the bloodstream, but blood transfusions are a thing and doesn't kill you.

What's the philosophical term for thinking that "you" are not in the brain either, but rather riding along the electrochemical signals and formations throughout the brain, and this would include the rest of the body in the sense of feeling and control of it and its feedbacks (which is the point of OP). It's not really duality or a soul, as its dependent on both body and mind to be functioning correctly and intermingled.

Avoiding processed food, like that high in sugars. Having probiotics and probiotics, which is things like yoghurts and fermented foods like kimchi, kombucha and sauerkraut.

Happy guts also like exercise to help move things along and most people have too little fibre from fruits vegetables and nuts. So increase fibre and get your 7 a day.

Alcohol is a general irritant and should be limited or avoided. For more complex answers, look into FODMAPs as well, which can be a problem for some people.

So, overall, less stodgy complex carbs, more fresh fruit and veg. Mostly the same as what is better for heart health, but with added probiotics!

“Dietary fiber” is carbohydrates that you can’t digest for food but which your gut bacteria can live on happily. Take psyllium husk capsules or eat foods with lots of dietary fiber.

You want healthy gut flora. So probably probiotic stuff like yogurt (though who knows how many of those bacteria actually make it through the gauntlet of stomach acids).

Antibiotics can do the opposite and really fuck up your gut flora.

Two years ago I started fermenting vegetables from my garden and eating them several times a week. The difference has been striking.

Personally?

Anal sex.

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Wine, bread and cheese, personally.

If you can eat whatever you want, be glad. Once gut microbiome is damaged, it's pretty much irreparable without fecal transplants (and even that sounds like it only helps the intestines, not the stomach).

That said, kefir helps a lot, but only short-term.

It's the shots of liberal tears that bring the real gut happiness.

Are you sure she's not diabetic? My sister is Type 1, so she's had diabetes her whole life. Whenever her blood sugar was out of whack, she'd become drunk-like and also have seizures in really bad instances.