#85 The Gut-Brain Connection: How to Boost Your Mental Health with a Healthy Microbiome

Welcome to another episode of the MindCep Podcast!

In this episode, you will learn:

  • How the gut and brain communicate with each other through the gut-brain axis, and how this affects your mood, cognition, and behavior.
  • How the gut microbiome, the collection of microbes that live in your gut, influences your mental health and can contribute to or protect from psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety.
  • How to improve your gut health and mental well-being by eating a diverse and fiber-rich diet, taking probiotics and fermented foods, reducing sugar and stress, avoiding antibiotics and disinfectants, exercising regularly, sleeping well, and quitting smoking.
  • Some of the latest research findings and challenges in the field of gut-brain-microbiome interactions, and how they can lead to new treatments and therapies for mental health conditions.
  • Some common myths and misconceptions about the gut-brain connection, and some of your questions from our social media.

If you want to learn more about the gut-brain connection and how it impacts your mental health, tune in to this episode of MindCep. You can also check out some of the resources we mentioned in the show notes below.

Here are the sources I used for this episode:

: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325293

: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615743/

: https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/healthy-gut-healthier-aging

: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357536/

: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6290721/

: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770139/

: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6315720/

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