The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain

Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by lr4444lr on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:01AM (#33610847)

Then why didn't they stop up from developing antibiotics?

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by putlake on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:07AM (#33610937)

Because there are different types of bacteria that are vying for domination. The "good" bacteria are fine with antibiotics because they usually only get used when there are too many "harmful" bacteria that threaten the life support system.

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by epistasis on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:26AM (#33611227)

The bacteria developed antibiotics! We just took them from the bacteria.

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by ephbit on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:22PM (#33613678)

Wasn't it mostly fungi where humans found antibiotics?

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by epistasis on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:53PM (#33616348)

Penicillin did, but I think a lot of the newer ones were derived from bacteria. But doing a quick web search right now I'm mostly getting potential new antibiotics that came from bacteria, rather than proven antibiotics, so now I'm wondering about the actual bacterial contribution...

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by patkai on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:22AM (#33611164)

Some say it's a symbiosis

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Re:The Gut Microbiome Helps Social Skills Develop in the Brain by thatguy0900 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:06AM (#33610916)

Have to sacrifice some of the colony so the host doesn't die. Previously they would have been wiped out by the invading bacteria army anyway

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