Bacteria Brains

A group of whitecoats at UCLA claim that eating yogurt gives you a brain boost:

Does what you eat affect your body more, or your mind? Can you just chow down on Big Macs as far as the brain goes, and be pretty much set? Or is there a deeper connection between thinking and food?

A new UCLA study that's one part gross to three parts fascinating has an idea: gut bacteria. Animals have been shown to have their minds altered by gut bacteria--is it the same for humans?

The only reaction my brain produces from yogurt is a gag reflex. Now if you want something in your gut that provides a brain boost, you need fungus, not bacteria. Specifically: yeast. As in the prime motivator of sweet, sweet beer!

Speaking of my favorite topic, does anybody know a malt liquor they'd like to recommend? I like Schlitz Bull, but my grocery store and liquor store don't carry it any more. I have to buy it at the local dot-head stop-and-rob. Even so, it doesn't taste quite as good to me as it did twenty-odd years ago, for some reason. I've tried Miller's Magnum and found it too bitter, not to mention a bit watery. Olde English... well, the less said the better. Recommendations?