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People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Shut up or I’ll give you my anxiety” has now become a threat that is possible to follow through on.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes technically, but… I was gonna say “how would you even act on that?” but decided I’d prefer not to know.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As someone who does know how transplanting gut biome works... yea, you absolutely don't want to know.

Just know that a "Stool Bank", which is a facility which holds samples of fecal matter tested to ensure no transferable disease, is a real thing that exists and is relevant to this discussion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Shit put into a pill that you swallow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think that is literally how it’s done today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

yeah it is, it's an odd concept to wrap your head around.