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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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[โ€“] jafffacakelemmy@fedia.io 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These researchers are bastards! Why didn't they transplant the gut microbiome from the mouse to the human instead, to cure the test patient's social anxiety?

[โ€“] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

"well they cured my anxiety but now cats make me weep in fear and i have an addiction to cheese.."