Re:Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”
by flukus on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @01:56AM
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Would be fascinating if it turns out to be half as important as gut bacteria. Maybe certain human breakthroughs like the rise of civilization could one day be attributed to a bacterial infection. And then the inverse, changing diets and the brain biome might lead to their collapse.
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Re:Tantalizing but preliminary evidence of a “brain microbiome”
by chiefalchemist on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:22AM
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I've thought the same of viruses as well. If the Zika virus can cause brain damage, perhaps there was another virus (and/or microbe) at some point that made us smarter.