Gut bacteria linked to personality | University of Oxford
Sociable people have a higher abundance of certain types of gut bacteria and also more diverse bacteria, an Oxford University study has found.
Gut bacteria linked to personality
Sociable people have a higher abundance of certain types of gut bacteria and also more diverse bacteria, an Oxford University study has found.
Certain things are worth specifically mentioning from the article (TL/DR):
"...both gut microbiome composition and diversity were related to differences in personality, including sociability and neuroticism ..."
"...gut microbiome may contribute not only to the extreme behavioural traits seen in autism but also to variation in social behaviour in the general population..."
"...social interactions can promote gut microbiome diversity..."
And to some of the reasons of it:
"...adults who had been formula-fed as children had a less diverse microbiome in adulthood..."
"Diversity was also positively related to international travel, perhaps due to exposure to novel microbes and different diets. More adventurous eaters had a more diverse gut microbiome whilst those on a dairy-free diet had lower diversity(...)"
That said, if you were not breast-fed and rot in your basement never leaving your town/state/country, it probably never began for you! Also, if you don't have social interactions, your bacteria diversity suffers, so again it's over!
