Is mental health a gut feeling?

Does your gut affect your mental health? Only recently, the idea that your gut could be shaping your mental health was considered far-fetched, more science fiction than actual science.

Now, UCalgary researchers are at the vanguard of worldwide research into what’s known as the gut-brain axis and how it may affect the way you think and feel, hoping their work will hold clues to causes of illness and perhaps novel new treatments.

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