Comment: a Sydney Morning Herald article on gut health and potential links to the mind:
What is emerging, however, is the growing link between gut health (measured by diversity of microbiome) and certain mental health conditions such as depression. Head of the Nutraceutical Research stream at Deakin University’s Food & Mood Centre, Dr Wolf Marx, says that a growing library of evidence points to the “bacteria from our gut seeming to have anti-inflammatory properties that can influence our mood.”