at the university college cork in ireland jon cryer and does pioneering research on the micro biome. he's been able to prove that gut bacteria can influence certain behaviors in animals as well. when you take. microbes from highly anxious mice and transplant them to normal anxious mice they become much more anxious and vice versa that even when you take them from normal you can normalize the stress response and things. scientists now even consider the micro biome to be a kind of intermediary a link between food and the brain. the main factor that influences the composition of these microbes is the food we take dieters and the diversity of the diet is really important from the moment we're born until we die in shaping the composition of the microbes and so we're beginning to realize the importance that what we eat has on what's in our microbes and how that's influencing what's going on in our brain. our well being depends in one way or another on our micro biome. a diet that is good for our mood is 1st and foremost and done it to do suitable for the bacteria in our intestines. this is