Stress is bad for your body, but how? Studying piglets may shed light
- Written by Adam Moeser, Matilda R. Wilson Endowed Chair, Associate Professor of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University
Pigs and humans have a lot in common, particularly their digestive tracts. Krumanop/Shutterstock.comStress affects most of us to one degree or another, and that even includes animals. My lab studies early-life stress in pigs and how it impacts their health later in life, specifically in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Pigs, whose GI tracts are...
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