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The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their precedent eats?

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On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their precedent eats?

We have great food here. All sorts of international restaurants [1],
stuff in stores, farmers' markets, gardens in back yards. Exotic
veggies and beans and fish.

[1] few or no Irish or German or Russian or English restaurants, for
some reason.



John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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On 1/5/26 21:24, Jan Panteltje wrote:

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their precedent eats?

Hmm, an Octopus transplant would be interesting :-)

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On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:24:09 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their precedent eats?

We have great food here. All sorts of international restaurants [1],
stuff in stores, farmers' markets, gardens in back yards. Exotic
veggies and beans and fish.

[1] few or no Irish or German or Russian or English restaurants, for
some reason.

If you've ever eaten in a Russian restaurant, you'll know why. Worst
cuisine in the world. Ever.
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On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:32:54 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:24:09 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:24:41 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> >>wrote:

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their precedent eats?

We have great food here. All sorts of international restaurants [1],
stuff in stores, farmers' markets, gardens in back yards. Exotic
veggies and beans and fish.

[1] few or no Irish or German or Russian or English restaurants, for
some reason.

If you've ever eaten in a Russian restaurant, you'll know why. Worst
cuisine in the world. Ever.

I spent a month in the USSR once. It was ghastly.

In even a fancy restaurant, you'd order from the menu and the waiter
would keep saying NYET, which means we don't have that today.

Nyet piva means no beer today. The Czech beer was OK when they had
it, the russian beer wasn't.

They always had canned crab meat for some reason.

I spent some time in Oxford. Aside from the usual fish-and-chips and
shepherd's pie in pubs, we did find one good Italian restaurant.

The food was good in Japan and France.

There's a fake British pub in Pacifica near here. They have fish+chips
but you can substitute oysters for the fish. And they have Bodington
on tap.

Check youtube for pacifica drone. The pub may not last much
longer.


John Larkin
Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center
Lunatic Fringe Electronics
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On 6/01/2026 4:24 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

The secret to human intelligence? It might be in our gut
Your gut microbes may have helped build the human brainrCoand could still be shaping how it works today.
Date:
January 5, 2026
Source:
Northwestern University
Summary:
New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions.
When scientists transferred microbes from different primates into mice, the animalsrCO brains began to resemble those of the original host species.
Microbes from large-brained primates boosted brain energy and learning pathways, while others triggered very different patterns.
The results suggest gut microbes may have played a hidden role in shaping the human brainrCoand could influence mental health.

Link:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260105165806.htm

All them 'merricans on junk food.. Their president eats?

The human gut microbiome is clearly important, and this has been known
for some years. When my wife was formally accepted as Fellow of the
Royal Society I got to tag along for the the acceptance ceremonies which
ran for several days. My post-doc supervisor got elevated in the same
batch. Quite a few of the new medical fellows in that batch had got in
for work on the human gut microbiome, which does differ quite a lot from individual to individual and can be changed by faecal transplants, yucky though they may be.

The food you put in your mouth is only one of the things that influence
it. The US president clearly grew up as a spoiled brat, but bad diet was probably only one of a number of other bad influences.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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