Microbes made me do it 🧠

We know our microbes can influence sleep, appetite, and even mood.

But what about who we are as people?

In nature, parasites can have eerie effects on behaviour.

Mice infected with Toxoplasma gondii lose their fear of cats. Ants overtaken by a fungus climb high and clamp onto leaves, sacrificing themselves to help the fungus spread.

It’s the stuff of TV series The Last of Us, but could something similar be happening in us - could our own microbes be gently pulling our strings?

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