
Brain and gut bugs: how they rule our emotions and mental health
We often heard that the gut microbes exceed human cells in number, being 10¹³-10¹⁴ micro-organisms, ten times the number of our won cells, and weighing approximately 1 kg, or about the weight of the human brain, (Dinan et al. 2015) and containing 150 times as many genes as our genome. The learning of such overwhelming number and importance on what we thought was our own body is has developed research into the human microbiome in relation to both health and disease at a very f