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Old 05-31-2013, 01:04 PM #1
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Default Changing Gut Bacteria Through Diet Affects Brain Function

Maybe PD is an undiscovered form of dysbiosis.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0528180900.htm
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Default Gut bacteria produce amino acids required to make neurotransmitters

gut bacteria produce the amino acids required to make brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine

...Bacteria both recognize and synthesize neuroendocrine hormones," Norris et al. write. "This has led to the hypothesis that microbes within the gut comprise a community that forms a microbial organ interfacing with the mammalian nervous system that innervates the gastrointestinal tract." (That nervous system innervating the GI tract is called the "enteric nervous system." It contains roughly half a billion neurons, compared with 85 billion neurons in the central nervous system.)
"The gut microbiota respond both to both the nutrients consumed by their hosts and to the state of their hosts as signaled by various hormones," write Norris et al. That communication presumably goes both ways: they also generate compounds that are used for signaling within the human system, "including neurotransmitters such as GABA, amino acids such as tyrosine and tryptophan -- which can be converted into the mood-determining molecules, dopamine and serotonin" -- and much else, says Norris...

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