This honestly was an interesting watch.

On ScienceDirect & PsychINFO, in the last year and half I've been coming across more and more peer-reviewed studies that are actually good, and do coincide with the notion that "gut bacteria health" affects mental health in a large way. Some studies even go as far as to call our gut our "second brain". I've read in peer-reviewed studies that what foods one craves, can be an indicator of one's overall health (say you only constantly crave salty, sugary or fatty foods - there's a reason for that beyond you "liking" how they taste, advertisements, or routine - your gut communicates with your brain).

In studies, this is often referred to as "The Gut-Brain Connection". It's interesting because three years ago and beyond, the whole "your gut, the bacteria in your intestinal track, etc" playing a role in your psychological status/health was laughed at by the psychological/medical community. The bacteria in your digestive tract making you feel low energy, majorly depressed, suicidal, anxious and like adrenaline is pumping from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed (and you feel like you only ever get surface-level sleep, you always wake up tired), had nothing to do with all of those symptoms - you were just MDD - "Prozac 4 you my nigga". It's both surprising and interesting seeing this topic actually getting researched and studied by the medical community. The fact that it's being funded, peer-reviewed and discussed seriously is interesting to me.

I wonder what their motives are. The industry always has a motive, and research is funded - things they don't want researched, will never receive proper funding. So there has to be a motive.