Researchers from Stanford Medicine and the Arc Institute in California have shown in mice that aging digestive bacteria blurs the dialogue between the stomach and the brain, following a study published in March 2026 in Nature. Restoring this dialogue was enough to make old rodents as strong a memory as that of young people. The intestinal-brain axis thus appears as a sort of remote control of memory, which can be activated from the intestine. A …
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Researchers from Stanford Medicine and the Arc Institute in California have shown in mice that aging digestive bacteria blurs the dialogue between the stomach and the brain, following a study published in March 2026 in Nature. Restoring this dialogue was enough to make old rodents as strong a memory as that of young people. The intestinal-brain axis thus appears as a sort of remote control of memory, which can be activated from the intestine. A …