TheGut-Brain Axis(GBA) is a term that describes how the brain and stomach are connected to one another. The gastrointestinal tract is home to over 100 million neurons1, which are more than in either your spinal cord or your peripheral nervous system. This allows for communication between the...
That so many millions of people succumb readily to the entreaties of wily politicians is a mystery given the extraordinary power of the human brain, which possesses more than eighty-six billion neurons, many more millions than any other animals. It’s this mystery that is at the heart of the...
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The clips are intended to help us understand our place in the universe, why we are here, and what happens when we die.I try to use as many sources as i can to corroborate what i am saying. And I feel it is extremely important to show the actual quote from the original source lest ...
ve been getting a lot of messages from people, also from clients. Even in my family, people who had an infection had to take an antibiotic. And then after the antibiotic feel like their bodies a little bit off, particularly their gut is off. So for someone who has to take an ...
Sensory neurons are responsible for transmitting information about touch, temperature, pain, and other sensations to the brain. The NTRK1 gene mutation that causes CIPA disease results in the production of an abnormal NTRK1 protein. This protein is not able to send signals from nerve cells to ...
This nerve connects the central nervous and enteric nervous systems (a mesh-like system of neurons that tells the gastrointestinal tract what to do). Vagus nerve activity plays a vital role in regulating essential bodily functions, such as your mood, heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate3, and...
The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat
Over the last five years or so, evidence has been piling up that the huge community of microorganisms – bacteria, viruses and fungi – that live in the gut affect everything from the immune system to mental health. We have learned that there are roughly 500m neurons in the human gut, ...
(emotion) to the moment the subjects first reported their perceptions (feeling), was about half a second.” Quite a substantial amount of time when one considers that a brain neuron can fire in about five milliseconds. Neurons are the brain cells that transmit information. Emotions happen in ...