Newly published research on the gut-brain connection. Thanks Joan!

More on "neuroprotection" and the gut from new research published in Nature Medicine.
"For the first time, we've been able to identify that food has some sort of remote control over central nervous system inflammation," said corresponding author Francisco Quintana, PhD, an investigator in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at BWH. "What we eat influences the ability of bacteria in our gut to produce small molecules, some of which are capable of traveling all the way to the brain. This opens up an area that's largely been unknown until now: how the gut controls brain inflammation."
(have to say, this area hasn't been "largely unknown" by researchers. The gut-brain connection has had published research for decades. About time MS specialists got onboard Joan)