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People with social anxiety disorder have a different gut microbiome - transplanting their microbiome to mice causes the mice to suffer from increased social fear (www.pnas.org)
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[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

As someone who does know how transplanting gut biome works... yea, you absolutely don't want to know.

Just know that a "Stool Bank", which is a facility which holds samples of fecal matter tested to ensure no transferable disease, is a real thing that exists and is relevant to this discussion.