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Podcast: Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center
Episode: REBROADCAST...if your gut can really talk to your brain? (with Ryan Rampersaud)
Description: Have you ever wandered the yogurt aisle in the grocery store and stumbled upon yogurt or other foods with the label 'probiotic'? These foods claim to support your gut health or your 'gut microbiome' – and some even go so far as to say they can help your mental health!Although that last claim is mostly just marketing hype, some scientific experiments have connected what’s going on with bacteria in the gut to the brain. Scientists have even started to show that people with depression have different gut microbiomes than people without depression. Now, scientists still have a to...