However, the pressures of gift-giving, social events, and expectations can sometimes take a toll on your mental health and steal the joy of the holiday season. According to the American Psychiatric Association, almost 9 in 10 adults report concerns about stress during the holiday season. If ...
An association between loss of microbiome function, specifically genes that encode SCFAs, and increased levels of circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines, has been shown in healthy elderly people.251Further, markers of microbiome change are significantly correlated with diet, and with indices of frailty a...
The advances in our understanding of the role of the microbiome in neurodevelopment and mental health, particularly in the past 5 years, have been remarkable. The implications of this new insight are only beginning to become apparent; however, the potential value of microbiome analyses in revealing...