Eating Yogurt Does Weird Things To Your Brain
Yogurt e Lamponi Diego Cosenza How and why are tougher questions. Does what you eat affect your body more, or your mind? Can you just chow down on Big Macs as far as the brain goes, and be pretty much set? Or is there a deeper connection between thinking and food? A new UCLA study that's one part gross to three parts fascinating has an idea: gut bacteria. Animals have been shown to have their minds altered by gut bacteria--is it the same for humans? Yogurt contains probiotics, a kind of "good" gut bacteria that may have health benefits. Researchers wanted to test out the relationship between probiotics and brain function, so they took three groups of 12 women each and fed one of the groups (the lucky group) yogurt with probiotics, one group a yogurt-like dairy product, and one group nothing. The idea was to show that what happens in...