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Hey everyone, this is Dr. Roushaw. Welcome back to more updates on probiotic research. As you may know,

we keep a pretty close eye on what's being published.

Unlike some others, which if I'm being totally honest, speak as though they know a lot about the

body of research here, but clearly do not. And let's use today as a chance to update you

on how probiotics can improve brain health, whether it be cognition, anxiety, depression,

mood, or sleep. And by the way, not all the studies here show benefits. So we're going to give

it to you straight. And then also probiotics for liver health, for gut symptoms, and for nutrient

absorption, specifically iron. All right, so we'll start off with

some studies that I found to be the most salient regarding how we can use probiotics to improve cognition,

mood, and or sleep. This first study is a clinical trial, small, and 52 patients. Now, they had this condition

known as minimal hepatic encephalopathy, and we discussed on the podcast in the past this hepatic

encephalopathy and how this is one of the mechanisms through which the gut

connects to brain fog that's essentially or this condition hepatic is a condition wherein

the liver can adequately do a job of filtration and remember that the gut drains to the liver.

This is the implication between the two.

Toxins build up in the blood, get into the brain, and then these toxins are just metabolic

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