The Thing About Beans

From eNewsletter 3/4/2026

DID YOU KNOW that one quarter of US adults reported severely elevated stress levels, and three quarters report that chronic stress affects their daily lives?

Evidence from Frontiers in Neuroscience suggest that chronic stress not only exacts a high toll on mental health, but also can wreak havoc on all levels of gastrointestinal functioning, all the way down to the microbiome.

Chronic stress can change the diversity and composition of the gut microbiome and essentially tips us toward an imbalance or dysbiosis. This means that the normal balance of microorganisms that we essentially think are beneficial gets reduced, and the colonies considered to be more harmful proliferate.

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