The Gut-Brain Axis: How Your Second Brain Affects Mood and Cognition
Discover the Gut-Brain Axis science. Learn how your microbiome, diet, and stress affect mental health, anxiety, and cognitive function.
The Gut-Brain Axis: How Your Second Brain Affects Mood and Cognition
The Secret Conversation: Why the Gut-Brain Axis is the Key to Unlocking Your Mood, Cognition, and Mental Resilience 💡 A Human Confession: The 'Gut Feeling' is Real Think about the last time you were nervous. Did your palms sweat? Probably. But more profoundly, did you feel a knot tightening in your stomach? That familiar rush of nausea before a big speech, or the overwhelming "gut feeling" that guides an important decision? We use the phrase "gut feeling" constantly, yet we rarely pause to consider how deep that biological connection truly runs. For centuries, science treated the brain as the sole sovereign of our mental life. But new, revolutionary research is proving what ancient medicine long suspected: we have two brains talking to each other. The second brain is the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) , nestled in the lining of your gut, and its communication highway to the skull is the Vagus Nerve . This complex, two-way street is known as the Gut-Brain Axis (GB…
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