Drew Burney
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Big effect size.
Pretty big effect size.
Even then, though, the recommendation is not to use them for more than two to four weeks.
But that said, I personally know people who have been on a low dose of benzos for a long time.
Yeah, and so… Years.
Yeah, doctors don't pay attention to that, apparently.
High chance of abuse with these drugs, yeah, for sure.
Again, this is one of those where like the mechanism, proposed mechanism, it makes sense.
The vagus nerve, it connects your stomach to your brain.
There's a literal connection between your gut and your brain, right?
And that's the vagus nerve.
That's one of the connections anyway.
They've done several experiments where they give a probiotic, different strains of probiotics, and they've measured brain activity.
It alters GABA function in your brain, which is, again, typically inhibitory.