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'Your digestive health, and even your overall health, could be dependent on the bugs in your gut.

Why is it that up until recently, medical theory was based on a time before smart phones, high-speed personal computers, and international research collaboration? For much of the last century, only findings by American scientists were considered important. Your doctor parroted what was taught in medical school, which was often based on incomplete, naïve, and often outright wrong research findings.

That’s why much of medical dogma does not serve post-modern patients with chronic disease. However, medical researchers—those scientists who keep up with technology—are pushing doctors into the 21st Century.' 

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'UCLA researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task.

The study, conducted by scientists with UCLA's Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and the Ahmanson–Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA, appears in the current online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology.'

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