NEW STUDY: Dogs Improve Human Mental Health by Transferring Beneficial Microbes

Dec 29th 2025 12:43pm EST

by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH A new peer-reviewed study in iScience reports that adolescents who live with dogs experience significantly better mental and social health — and the mechanism appears to be microbial, not merely psychological. Using longitudinal data from a population-based cohort of 345 adolescents, combined with microbiome sequencing and germ-free mouse transplantation experiments, researchers […]

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