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by yenwel 2060 days ago
Gut bacteria and even all bacteria en virusses that compromise the ecosystem that is your body greatly determines not only your physical but even your mental health. I don't really think this is a fad. The first 1000 days of a child (including pregnancy) are the most important for humans to determine their future wellbeing. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neuroscience-in-ever... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180223092441.h...
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The links are on the level of the xkcd p-value comic. Fact is, in biology and medicine things like this are hyped up and refuted two decades later, only to be re-refuted 4 decades later.

Best example are the nutrition fads.

This isn’t a fad though. Nor is nutrition. They’re operating on a different plane than fads which are overly prescriptive and don’t account for differences in and changing environments.