Specifically, a high-resilience phenotype of the gut microbiome was identified based on a mix of microbes and metabolites that had anti-inflammatory and gut-barrier integrity features. This phenotype was associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression. Besides looking at the traits of the microbiome, the study used clinical and psychological assessment tools and MRIs that examined structural and functional roles of the brain.
The study included 116 healthy participants, 18 to 60 years old. Not only that, stress is an inevitable part of the human experience, she said, noting that 77 percent of Americans have physical symptoms related to stress and 33 percent report extreme stress. The study also notes that stress leads to an annual loss of $300 billion in health care expenses and missed work in the United States.
“What really makes the study unique is often we focus on stress, or we focus on the negative or we focus on the disease group,” said Ms. Church, who is also co-director of the Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center. “Usually in medicine, we really focus on disease, how to cure disease, how to better understand the underlying mechanism of disease, and what I wanted to do was flip the script.
” Better at environmental adaptation Able to replicate and repair DNA Better at carbohydrate and energy metabolism Anti-inflammatory She described the relationship between the gut and brain like a car with working brakes. Ms. Ruiz told The Epoch Times in an email interview .
