Microbial Muses: Threads of Our Inner Wisdom
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Author(s)
Erdman, Susan E
Date Issued
March 2021
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Citation
Challenges 12 (1): 10 (2021)
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Final published version
Abstract
Spiritual journeys unveil our inner wisdom to help us navigate traumatic life events. Scientific evidence implicates a gut–immune–brain axis in our sense of self, raising the possibility that our microbial partners and hormone oxytocin offer a sense of connectedness and liberate our ancestral archives to sustain us during challenging times.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine
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https://doi.org/10.3390/challe12010010