A new study finds that children with autism have a different gut biome than children who don’t.
New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome
The idea that bacteria in our lower tract influence us in such profound ways is very strange, but also very encouraging. If raises the possibility of relatively simple treatments.
I don’t know if this finding will hold up, but if it does, it might make sense of a question we’ve all asked over the years: why does there seem to be more autism nowadays?
It’s a dead certainty that modern life influences the bacteria in our gut. If that, in turn, affects autism …. Wow. What else?
I want someone to compare the microbiome of woke vs sane people. Maybe we can cure our country by requiring everyone to eat yogurt.
Or maybe less yogurt? Woke people probably eat more active yogurt on average than sane people, and yogurt consumption has increased, not decreased in this country in the last two generations.
Maybe yogurt causes wokeness. The gut microbiome is complex, after all. Maybe meat consumption is the issue? 😉
Sure. Who knows. Maybe it’s all that kombucha. 🙂
In any event, if there truly is a gut to brain pipeline, it raises the possibility that some mental … uh, differences … might be changed by something as simple as adding (or removing) bacteria from the gut. That would be a wonderful thing.
It would also provide an entirely new genre of jokes and jibes.
“I think you’re a little out of balance today. Better go eat some roadkill.”
Indeed! It’s a very interesting concept and I hope that some of the possibilities pan out. I was just having fun with it.