Study: Wisdom and loneliness can influence the gut microbial diversity – News-Medical.Net

It may take guts — or more precisely, a diverse gut microbiome — to achieve wisdom and fend off loneliness. Or perhaps it’s the other way around, report UC San Diego researchers.
The evolving science of wisdom rests on the idea that wisdom’s defined traits correspond to distinct regions of the brain, and that greater wisdom translates into greater happiness and life satisfaction while being less wise results in the opposite, negative consequences.
Scientists have found in multiple studies that persons…

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