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There's a connection between the bacteria living in your digestive tract and your brain. The specifics of this are not fully understood yet. Your gut bacteria do a substantial amount of digestion for you, breaking down the food you eat into molecules that your intestines can absorb. The bacteria live in your intestine because they also consume some of the food that you eat. The research suggests that the bacteria can send signals to your brain that influence what you choose to eat - so that you eat things that they also eat.
Your cravings might not actually be 'yours', in a sense.
This is rather interesting to me, as I have gut issues where I should be limiting my consumption of red meat. Red meat, specifically beef, in excess gives me rather uncomfortable toilet visits, however completely refraining from any at all causes flare ups in my mental conditions (namely, my depression and CPTSD symptoms are somewhat more exaggerated). It's at this point where I would crave something like a burger, almost like an addiction that somehow lay dormant until that moment, and my mood is lifted for some time afterwards.
I'm not within the field of science, however I have been noting how my diet affects my gut and mind for many years now, and that's just what I've noticed. It makes sense to me for a study to prove some correlation as well between the gut and brain.
Taking a probiotic supplement that has a lot of different types of bacteria can help some people.
Maybe worth looking into alpha-gal syndrome?
That is very, very different to my situation. Thank you for trying to help, however.