The Psychobiotic Revolution

For good health, including mental health, the food you eat needs to be good for you and for your microbiota.

This book will help you make better choices by learning about the foods that feed

your microbiota best, including what we now call psychobiotics.

The community of microbes living in your gut—your so-called microbiota—is like another organ of your body.

That, presumably, is why our planet is completely coated with living matter.

Fortunately, life tends to lean toward cooperation, happily forming alliances to advance a shared cause. That, presumably, is why our planet is completely coated with living matter. And that is how, some millions of years ago, bacteria and animals struck up a deal. In return for a moist bed and a warm buffet, beneficial bacteria took up the job of defending us against the madly proliferating pathogens in the world. It takes a germ to fight a germ.

That’s a big clue to their superpower: They are excellent at reproduction.

its brethren reached the mass of Earth in just two days

“If microbes are controlling the brain, then microbes are controlling everything.”

We’re beginning to fully realize the importance that gut function and the food we eat have on our mental well-being.