Resilience and the gut microbiome are both hot topics in psychological research. Now, a new study connects them—with significant implications.
The explosion in studies involving mental health disorders and the gut microbiome has been an exciting development over the past decade in psychological research. Just 20 or 25 years ago, the idea that your intestinal bacteria—which are affected by your, and other mental health disorders would have sounded somewhat unrealistic, if not totally outlandish.
For this study, rather than looking at participants who were suffering from psychopathology like anxiety disorders or depression, researchers sought out healthy people who were particularly resilient and who showed signs of coping even better than the average person.
Stool samples were also collected, and this is where the gut microbiome comes in: the highly resilient people exhibited signs of a particularly healthy gut barrier with low inflammation. It was striking to have evidence in both the fMRI and the stool samples that highly resilient people had significant differences in their biological makeup, representing both the brain and the gut.
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