Microbial Muses: Threads of Our Inner Wisdom

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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  2021

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  Challenges

• Publication date

  2021-03-25

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  DOI 10.3390/CHALLE12010010
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