Christoph Thaiss

Christoph Thaiss, assistant professor and ARC Institute investigator studying gut–brain interactions. He discusses how age-related microbiome shifts can blunt internal bodily signals and alter vagus nerve communication. Conversations cover experiments linking aged microbes to memory loss in mice, identification of a culprit bacterium, inflammatory pathways that mute vagal signaling, and potential therapies like vagal stimulation and drugs.