Fibromyalgia and the microbiome

Today, we are going to talk about pain, which...

It won't be painful.

It

will be

interesting.

I

promise you.

It's a paper in Neuron that I've been eyeing for a while.

It was published last July, and I marked it for a future twin, and now it's time.

It's in Neuron called The Gut Microbiota Promotes Pain in Fibromyalgia.

Huge, huge, not huge, but a long author list.

We have Wei Hua Kai is the first author, and we have three corresponding authors, Yoram Shir, Amir Minerbi, and Arkady Kutursky.

And these are from McGill University, the Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Calgary, the Université Laval, and the University College Dublin.

That was an

international effort.

Quite.

Yeah, there's a lot of Canadians on here, or a lot of Canadian.

Speaking of the Arcadians in New Orleans, always going to find a way to bring it back.

So

this is about chronic pain, right? Chronic is something that happens a long time.

It's a very, people have, a lot of people have chronic pain.

And sometimes it has an underlying cause, tissue injury or some kind of disease.

But often there's no history of anything, no trauma, no illness, nothing.

It just starts.

And this is called nociplastic pain, which is a term I've never heard before.