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Lacking these gut microbes has been posited to lead to depression and effect mood by a few researchers: https://www.science.org/content/article/evidence-mounts

• TranquilMarmot 4y ago
  The future of antidepressants is fecal transplants for healthy gut bacteria (not even kidding)
  • badkitty99 4y ago
• baronswindle 4y ago
  > The researchers can't say whether the absence is a cause or an effect of the illness My immediate thought was that people suffering from depression might eat more “junk food” due to the depression and that their poor diets might lay waste to their gut biomes. Of course, there may be other studies that contradict my hypothesis.