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The Gut Microbiome and it's relation to Anxiety

Name: The Gut Microbiome and it's relation to Anxiety
Uploaded: 2024-09-27T03:05:11+00:00
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Dr. Nicole Cain
Description: Dr. Nicole Cain explains how gut bacteria produce about 95% of your serotonin and directly influence anxiety and mood. Antidepressants like Lexapro and…

27 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Nicole Cain explains how gut bacteria produce about 95% of your serotonin and directly influence anxiety and mood. Antidepressants like Lexapro and Zoloft affect digestion alongside mental health, showing the gut-brain link works both ways.

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95% (as stated in the transcript).

Lexapro and Zoloft (examples given in the interview).

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Tell us a little bit more. From your perspective, how is the gut related to anxiety or to mood? You know, how do you see the gut brain axis? Also, from a clinical perspective, I see.
It working primarily with four different systems. And so we have the gut, and the gut contains all sorts of bacteria and viruses and yeasts and all sorts of other organic matter. And the job of the gut and the gut microbiome is to help regulate your entire body. And so the gut microbes have their own specific roles. They make your neurotransmitters. In fact, 95% of your serotonin is made by the microbes in your gut. And so we also see that clinically, when we give somebody an antidepressant like Lexapro or Zoloft, that we see changes in the mood as well as digestive changes. And so we know that the gut microbiome plays a huge role in how we feel emotionally, but also physically.