Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how gut metabolites shape mood, immunity, and hormones. She credits her own suicidal thoughts at ages 10, 15, and 40 to childhood parasitic infections and nervous-system dysregulation from unspoken trauma, not just brain chemistry.
The gut-brain connection is real. So these metabolites are responsible for our moods, our emotion, our immune system response, and our hormone balance. And I love this example. I know it's a big picture. Get your phones out, take pictures, look at it later. But I have been on all the major antidepressants because I wanted to kill myself at 10 years old. At 15 years old, and again at 40 years old. And it was because I had a rotten gut. I had parasites when I was a child because I liked to run around in bare feet. And I had nervous system dysregulation because I didn't use my voice, I didn't speak up about the bad things that were happening to me as a child.
