Diet affects brain health. “Fruits, vegetables and fermented foods reduce stress: thanks to gut bacteria”

Proverbs know that many emotions are perceived with the belly. Now science confirms that the digestive system affects the brain in much more profound ways than we thought.

In the intestine lives, intertwines and communicates with us that community of thousands of species and billions of specimens of bacteria called the microbiome. And that increasingly, in its collective intelligence, emerges as the control room of many aspects of our health, from the s…