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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

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