Comments on: How Depression May Be Linked To Gut Microbes https://selfhacked.com/blog/depression-genetics-gut-microbes-inflammation/ Cutting-Edge Solutions For a Better Life Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 By: JUN https://selfhacked.com/blog/depression-genetics-gut-microbes-inflammation/#comment-45024 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:12:29 +0000 https://selfhacked.com/?p=28720#comment-45024 I found adding a little aspirin reduced the amount of tryptophan I needed for sleep/depression.

]]> By: Hillary https://selfhacked.com/blog/depression-genetics-gut-microbes-inflammation/#comment-30545 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 06:01:35 +0000 https://selfhacked.com/?p=28720#comment-30545 Anyone familiar with Robert Whitaker’s book Anatomy of an Epidemic? or Mary Ackerley who is a psychiatrist. Extremely interesting stuff that really challenges the monamine hypothesis of depression.

]]> By: Richard G. https://selfhacked.com/blog/depression-genetics-gut-microbes-inflammation/#comment-19163 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:00:34 +0000 https://selfhacked.com/?p=28720#comment-19163 When I had SIBO (and my gut biota was extremely out of balance), I had two short term instances of deep depression. SAM-e (400-1600mg) would immediately lift this depression. The worse my gut felt, the more SAM-e I needed to lift the depression.

Also, after I started antibiotics (Rifaximin, several herbals such as oregano oil, neem, and lactoferrin), the depression went away. Personally, I am convinced that in extreme cases your gut biota can effectively become toxic, and one of the downstream effects can be liver congestion (because it gets bogged down handling toxic bacterial metabolites) and depression (possibly due to low neurotransmitters).

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