>Try what?

Recultivating your gut garden.

>Plus the study refers to palpable food, sweets is one example

Studies sometimes fall short on descriptions. "Palatable food" for instance.

>In the end it’s your choice to eat or not to eat when having cravings

What if you could get rid of those gut microbes that dine on the sweets you feed them?

>Do we know which type or species of bacteria that are the culprits?

The scientists obviously don't. That's why there tinkering around with mice.

Well, in keeping with the article, there's a way to kill (or at least greatly reduce) those sugar-loving critters in your gut.)

>Interesting read. I’m sure it’s not the only factor in humans but a good angle to start investigating further its cause and effect and relationship

You can try something yourself if you have a real sweet tooth you'd like to get rid of.

When I was six, I learned about gut microbes. Since this was decades ago learned from veterinary information, why is this microbiom stuff just recently becoming big in human medicine?

>But yet people are already saying we should do that….

Some are saying that. Dreams...sometimes looking ahead distracts us from looking at other things. Humans are the only species known to self-deceive via a mental process. Self-deception happens in many forms. Dreaming is one way.

>Point is people seem to not want to accept that essentially this will be colonization 3.0 and saying day 1 we need to set aside areas for native species is uncomfortably close to reality repeating history

We aren't there yet.

Wasn't able to read the article due to paywall...but,

>Researchers show that the same system in the brain that enables us to avoid danger is also activated during selfless, helping behaviour

These are basically two very different statements

>These results contradict conventional wisdom that we need to suppress our own fear system in order to help others who are in danger”

>Scientific Integrity Requires Publishing Rebuttals and Retracting Problematic Papers.

Going back how many decades? (Just curious.)

>So mental illness is just "personality and emotions?"

Didn't say that. "Behavior," taken as a whole--from simple to complex life--paints with a really broad brush. Emotion and personality are very individualized. They count, of course, and this would be the (jurisdiction) of psychology. (Doesn't this patch belong to psychology? Don't psychologists deal with personality and emotions?

>Today it’s considered a spectrum of different disorders (and there’s likely even more nuance than the existing spectrum allows for).

Not really a fan of psychology...just interested in behavior. Acknowledge that personality and emotions certainly play a role in behavior. Use the analogy of spice vs food. Spice provides flavor, for good or bad.

A few decades ago, "schizophenia" was a sort of catch-all "diagnosis" when nothing else seemed to fit.

>This is significant because it is well-known that environment is an important factor in both schizophrenia and COVID-19. 

When did environment become a factor in schizophrenia? I thought it was a brain chemistry thing.

Orcas need air. Ice in the Arctic provided a barrier keeping them out and] narwhales in. With less ice, the orcas can penetrate further...hence, invasive species.