How Distraction Is Rewiring Our Brains—and How Mindfulness Can Help
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How Distraction Is Rewiring Our Brains—and How Mindfulness Can Help
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… the microbes are holding the reigns to a lot of what’s going on. If we were not doing a good job at passaging them around to additional culturing flasks — specifically other humans — they would undoubtedly discover ways to make us better at doing that.
I think a more optimistic, or different way to frame this, is just that we’re composite organisms. I think we traditionally think of ourselves — the human body — as a collection of human cells. And what we really are is an ecosystem. We have microbial and human parts that come together to work in a concerted fashion to make up this
~ Dr. J Sonnenburg from, https://chriskresser.com/is-a-disrupted-gut-microbiome-at-the-root-of-modern-disease-with-dr-justin-sonnenburg/
super-organism. And we can’t forget about the microbes because they’re really an important part of our biology.
If you haven’t heard much about how important are all the teeny little microbes living in your digestive track, this is a good podcast to get started.
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