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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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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

i'd imagine that's more down to the simple fact of having readily available energy in your body, plus stuff like food being comforting.