Dr. Nicole Cain discusses a 2023 study finding bacteria and yeast in the brain and spinal cord. Researchers link these microbes to anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer's disease, and point to the gut and mouth as possible entry routes.
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So not too long ago, it came out that we have bugs in the brain. And I'm not talking about weird worms or parasites or anything like that. I'm talking about your microbiome. So if this blows your mind as much as it did mine, listen on this is the video for you explaining all about the bugs in your brain and why it matters. It all started with this article. Is there a brain microbiome? I thought. I thought the brain was sterile, and it turned out it's not totally sterile. That's not the case. The next question that came to mind is, okay, if we have bugs, where are they coming from? The blood brain barrier should be blocking it. Right? I found you the answers. One of the main sources is from your mouth. And now all day, I've been walking around looking at people's mouths. But a better thing to do is to look at the studies. And here's an article from Frontiers in Neuroscience from October of 2023. Researchers discovered that we have evidence of a microbiome in the central nervous system that's your brain and spinal cord. But it also turns out that bacteria and yeast can invade the brain, and it can cause problems like anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer's disease. There's a lot of ways this can happen, but there's even more ways we can prevent it. Entry point number one are pathogens in the gut leaking.
