According to the new findings, Gut Bacteria eat a chemical known as G.A.B.A. This chemical produces a calming effect on the human brain and apparently gut bacteria also like to remain calm because GABA is all they eat! If these little parasites only eat G.A.B.A. why do we need them in our Guts? Apparently they are not helping us digest our food! Do they serve some other purpose? What do these Gut Bacteria secrete after eating G.A.B.A.?
The following article links low levels of G.A.B.A. to depression and mood disorders. It also explains that certain Gut Bacteria only eat G.A.B.A. That makes me wonder! What would happen if we limit or remove these particular Gut Bacteria? Fewer of these Gut Bacteria might mean leaving more G.A.B.A. for our human Brains. That might help to calm our brains but here is another question. What is G.A.B.A. doing in our digestive tracts? Should this chemical not remain in our Brains where it belongs? My guess is that we have to keep our Gut Bacteria happy without depleting our brain's supply of G.A.B.A. I theorize that learning how to increase and maintain G.A.B.A. in our brains will keep both our brains and our Guts contented for longer periods.
What do you think gentle Corina Marinescu?
What do you think gentle Corina Marinescu?
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.
Philip Strandwitz and his colleagues at Northeastern University in Boston discovered that they could only grow a species of recently discovered gut bacteria, called KLE1738, if they provide it with GABA molecules. “Nothing made it grow, except GABA,” Strandwitz said while announcing his findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston last month.
GABA acts by inhibiting signals from nerve cells, calming down the activity of the brain, so it’s surprising to learn that a gut bacterium needs it to grow and reproduce. Having abnormally low levels of GABA is linked to depression and mood disorders, and this finding adds to growing evidence that our gut bacteria may affect our brains.
Source & further reading:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095769-gut-bacteria-spotted-eating-brain-chemicals-for-the-first-time/
Paper:
http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4060/presentation/18619
#neuroscience #gutbacteria #GABA #research
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.
Philip Strandwitz and his colleagues at Northeastern University in Boston discovered that they could only grow a species of recently discovered gut bacteria, called KLE1738, if they provide it with GABA molecules. “Nothing made it grow, except GABA,” Strandwitz said while announcing his findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston last month.
GABA acts by inhibiting signals from nerve cells, calming down the activity of the brain, so it’s surprising to learn that a gut bacterium needs it to grow and reproduce. Having abnormally low levels of GABA is linked to depression and mood disorders, and this finding adds to growing evidence that our gut bacteria may affect our brains.
Source & further reading:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095769-gut-bacteria-spotted-eating-brain-chemicals-for-the-first-time/
Paper:
http://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/4060/presentation/18619
#neuroscience #gutbacteria #GABA #research
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