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STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria

Posted by PeterMartin on February 7, 2019, at 10:05:26

Feb 2019:
This is a new scientific study posted February 2019. Perhaps it might seem intuitive but this is evidence and important as science tries to find new treatments:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-02-differences-gut-microbiomes-people-schizophrenia.html


Researchers find differences in gut microbiomes in people with schizophrenia
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and one in the U.S. has found that people with schizophrenia have differences in their gut biomes compared to people without the mental disorder. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes testing schizophrenia patients and experiments they conducted with mice, and what they found.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking and muted emotional expression. It is believed that 0.5 to 1 percent of all people worldwide have the disorder, which has no cure. Scientists have studied the disorder for many years, but it was only recently that a possible connection between the gut biome and the disorder came under scrutiny. In this new effort, the researchers found differences between the gut biomes of people with and without schizophrenia.

To learn more about the possible connection between the gut biome and schizophrenia, the researchers collected stool samples from 53 schizophrenia patients who were taking medication to reduce symptoms. They also collected five stool samples from schizophrenia patients who were not taking medication and from 69 people who did not have schizophrenia.

The researchers performed gene sequencing on the stool samples to isolate gut biome bacteria. They divided the bacteria they found into operational taxonomic units (OTUs). They report that out of 854 OTUs, they found 56 that appeared only in schizophrenia patients and 64 that appeared only in the control group. They also noted that the gut biomes of the schizophrenia patients had overall lower diversity than the control group.


Taking a closer look, the researchers found a smaller subset of bacteria that were clearly different between schizophrenia patients and those without the disorder. They report that when they introduced samples of the subset from the schizophrenia patients into the biomes of healthy mice, the mice displayed behavior changes.

The researchers claim that their results show that people with schizophrenia have differences in their gut biomes and that those differences may be associated with schizophrenia symptoms. Furthermore, they suggest that certain bacteria in the biome may be associated with schizophrenia-related symptoms due to interactions with microbiota gut-brain amino acids, and possibly lipid metabolic pathways.

 

Re: STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria

Posted by Christ_empowered on February 8, 2019, at 9:09:46

In reply to STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria, posted by PeterMartin on February 7, 2019, at 10:05:26

could this be related to poverty?

 

Re: STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria

Posted by bleauberry on February 10, 2019, at 13:14:47

In reply to STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria, posted by PeterMartin on February 7, 2019, at 10:05:26

It's pretty safe to assume that any person with any chronic disease or chronic syndrome has some gut microbe issues as a part of the overall picture. Maybe causative, maybe a side effect, maybe a result of disease.

Probably the first pace to start healing any chronic illness is the gut. And that does not mean probiotics. It means eating the right foods - low or no sugars, low or no starches, easy to digest, many colored foods on the plate, gut friendly foods such as sauerkraut and kefir, no processed foods, organic and non-GMO as much as possible, Glutamine supplements, maybe Licorice supplements, and gut friendly herbs which kill off bad yeast, fungus, mold and bactyeria while supporting natural gut bacteria.

I see reference to various gut bacteria but that really isn't the main thing. The main thing is a leaky gut - poor integrity of the intestinal wall, which allows undigested molecules of food to slip into the bloodstream, causing depression, anxiety, brain fog, auto immune things, allergies and sensitivities.

If someone truly wants to restore gut integrity as fast as possible in terms of the bacteria, the only way to really do that his with a fecal transplant. That's right, they take tested safe feces from a healthy donor and implant it into your intestines.

Lexapro or Seroquel are examples of how we attempt to treat gut problems that show up in the head.

 

Re: STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria

Posted by Lamdage22 on May 13, 2019, at 11:53:13

In reply to Re: STUDY: Schizophrenics have different gut bacteria, posted by bleauberry on February 10, 2019, at 13:14:47

Bleauberry,

is it safe?


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