{"id":218598,"date":"2025-07-24T04:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/an-extra-sense-may-connect-gut-bacteria-with-our-brain"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:18:24","slug":"an-extra-sense-may-connect-gut-bacteria-with-our-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/an-extra-sense-may-connect-gut-bacteria-with-our-brain","title":{"rendered":"An Extra Sense May Connect Gut Bacteria With Our Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-extra-sense-may-connect-gut-bacteria-with-our-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to new research, communication between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-one-more-link-between-our-gut-and-our-brain-that-could-help-avoid-dementia\">the gut and the brain<\/a> is sophisticated enough to be classed as a new and distinct sense \u2013 one capable of affecting our appetite and even our mood.<\/p>\n<p>This two-way link has previously been associated with a variety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/deadly-intestinal-changes-result-traumatic-brain-injury\">of health issues<\/a>, though the physical processes at work have never been clearly identified.<\/p>\n<p>Building on what we already know about our digestive and neurological systems, a team from Duke University in the US traced a series of biochemical actions from the digestive tracts of mice to their brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to new research, communication between the gut and the brain is sophisticated enough to be classed as a new and distinct sense \u2013 one capable of affecting our appetite and even our mood. This two-way link has previously been associated with a variety of health issues, though the physical processes at work have never [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}