Some slightly disturbing studies suggest (but don´t definitely prove - yet) a connection between autism or social anxiety disorder and...wait for it...the bacterial biome in our guts! Not only that, bacteria may have caused or at least enhanced our evolution towards intelligence, either by somehow stimulating the intelligence itself, or by doing something to the energy metabolism of our primate ancestors which made it possible for them to develop bigger brains.
Chapter two of the saga "we are controlled by micro-organisms"...
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