Also, a healthy gut environment fosters communication between the brain and gut. This connection highlights how vital our microbes are for physical well-being and emotional stability. Encouraging a diversity of healthy strains through a diet rich in fiber, probiotics, andprebioticscan significantly enha...
In a striking display of trans-kingdom symbiosis, gut bacteria cooperate with their animal hosts to regulate the development and function of the immune, metabolic and nervous systems through dynamic bidirectional communication along the ‘gut–brain axis’. These processes may affect human health, as...
Dr. Will Cole sheds light on the relationship between your physical and emotional health, providing a framework for you to better understand the gut-brain connection and influence that connection for the better. He illustrates how stress and shame can cause gut inflammation and sabotage your health...
Haury and his colleagues tapped into cognitive science research showing that our brains don't just process ideas logically—we also rely on how true something feels when judging an idea. "Research in neuroscience has shown that when there's a conflict between facts and feeling in the brain, fe...
There is increasing evidence showing that the dynamic changes in the gut microbiota can alter brain physiology and behavior. Cognition was originally thought to be regulated only by the central nervous system. However, it is now becoming clear that many non-nervous system factors, including the gut...
Gut microbiota are increasingly being recognized as influencing many aspects of human health. In this Review, Cryan and Dinan discuss rapidly emerging evidence that the gut microbiota also influence brain and behaviour and may have a role in anxiety, moo
Studies have shown a connection between the brain and the gut, where the mental state of a person directly impacts the functioning of the actual gut. This fact may give you a clue as to why it is called a gut instinct, considering your gut can interact with your brain directly. Once hea...
5. May support brain function Our gut is physically connected to the brain via nerves and also helps to make brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, like serotonin, that can help to regulate sleep and mood.15,16 So, we know there's a connection between gut and the central nervous system,...
Besides the neuronal connection with the vagus nerve that physically links the gut and the brain, the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis (HPA) represents the hormonal route of gut–brain communication. On the other hand, enterochromaffin cells (ECCs) are interspersed in the gut epithelium and ...
These dependencies result directly from the existence of a physical and functional connection between the human digestive tract and the CNS. This concept called the gut-brain axis (GBA) with the participation of neural and biochemical mechanisms can be exploited for the development of new therapies ...