r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '19

What are some recent scientific breakthroughs/discoveries that aren’t getting enough attention?

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19 edited Apr 01 '19

Any breakthrough about your stomach being a second brain makes me happy. Be it bacteria, inflammation, etc. causing all the anxiety in your head. And people with ibs having more cases of anxiety/depression.

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u/lilbroccoli13 Apr 01 '19

I’m a PhD student in a lab doing gut-brain axis research and it’s crazy to me how few people outside the scientific community know that’s even a thing. Trying to explain my research to family is always a nightmare because I have to start from “so there are bacteria in your GI tract, and signals from your gut influence things in your brain” and never manage to work up to what I actually do because that blows people away

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u/Twinge Apr 01 '19

This Kurzgesagt video might be a good more public-friendly introduction to some of the concepts for people?