This document discusses research showing that the microbes in our gut can influence our food choices and diet by secreting hormones that affect our mood and appetite. The gut microbiome can be rapidly altered within 24 hours by prebiotics, probiotics, dietary changes, and fecal transplants. Certain gut microbes are highly dependent on the nutrient composition of our diet and may manipulate our brain through the vagus nerve to influence what we eat.

1. This research may provide the way to overrule
the microbes to regain our self-control.
The use of prebiotics, probiotics, antibiotics, fecal
transplants, and dietary changes can rapidly alter
the microbiome within 24 hours.
Microbes also influence our diet by secreting mood controlling hormones like dopamine and serotonine.
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Guess What Really Rules Your Food Choices?
We commonly blame bad eating on our brain’s lack of self control.
Carlo Maley, PhD, director, Center for Evolution and Cancer, University of California at San Francisco says “Bacteria within the gut are manipulative“.
Joe Alcock, MD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
and colleagues believe that certain microbes are highly dependent on the nutrient composition of the diet.
The gut uses the Vagus nerve to manipulate the brain
If the vagus nerve of rats is blocked, drastic weight loss occurs.
Sources: BioEssays. Published online August 7, 2014. Abstract: “Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms”
Medscape Multispecialty. Published online September 3, 2014. “Is Your Gut Ruling Your Brain on Food Choices?”
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