News or articles about this keep coming out recently. but they all seem to be limited to "we think", "might" and the great potential it may have. Since we d

News or articles about this keep coming out recently. but they all seem to be limited to "we think", "might" and the great potential it may have. Since we do not know much about how the brain works to begin with I guess that is as close as we can get. I say we dont know much about how the brain works as a I take medication for depression. The way that works most often is that you are given a pill that may work. You take it for between 2 - 26 weeks, depending on results. (some may have a fast negative effect) and then you tell your doc if you feel better. (Sometimes complicated surveys) if it didn't work, you get to do it over again. and again and again. until you find something that works, give up or die. then sometimes it stops working. One place I know does a cool, I forget the proper name. They take a "video" of how your brain is "working" (at an extremely low resolution). then they compare what they find to knowledge about what parts of the brain should be active, not active etc. From this they hope to establish a delta between "normal" and you. Then you get to take pills and you come back (after some times) they do the whole thing over again, to see if you are now closer to "normal" or not. The goal then being to find a chemical that brings you as close to normal as can be. It is highly appealing in that it would offer -some- scientific basis for evaluating the drugs aside from "How do you feel". If it -actually works- I have no idea. It was far too expensive for me, and to qualify you have to not have taken any medication already. (that would mess up the "virgin" recording). An interesting research project would be recording tens of thousands of people who self-reported no depression in the hope that some would develop clinical depression and comparisons could be made. If we now mix in gut bacteria into the equation, I can imagine you somehow "insert" new gut bacteria into a person and then you wait for some time and tell the doc if it worked or not. If not you can get a different psychobiotics and enter the loop. Add in regular medication for depression the number of possible permutation would become huge. (I like to include this link to a Standford lecture on the difference between "being sad" and clinical depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc)