Your Mind is in the Gut

“With all the knowledge we’ve gathered, we made the best possible effort to capture all the factors we could imagine, and we could only explain 8 percent of the total variation. It’s very humbling.” The more we learn, the more convinced we are that the microbiome plays a key role in our health (probably both physical and mental). But it’s complicated in there.

+ (Somewhat) related: How laxative teas took over Instagram, one $250,000 celebrity endorsement at a time. (I don’t think anyone who’s consumed a cup of this tea needs a celebrity to assure them of its effectiveness.)

+ You might want to get a second opinion … on the price of your surgery. It could be a lot cheaper one town over.