Next up: how the cows may be controlling the dairy farmerhttps://twitter.com/Psychobiotic/status/1061305014784794626 …
Fecal transplants probably don’t work because better gut flora is more invasive. They are breeding stock. If the new breeds use different nutrients, they may create demand and deficiencies, which the organism registers and tries to compensate for.
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Yes, and regarding those demands/deficiencies - would you consider these signals resulting from the new breeding stock to be a method of influencing their host's behavior? Is that control? Because I absolutely believe microbes influence their hosts' behaviors.
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Imagine that a goat farmer gets a cow transplant. The farmer measures the amount of milk being produced by each, and as a result begins to breed mostly cows. He will also have to learn to switch from goat feed to cow feed. Does that mean that the cows control the farmer?
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