#braingut

Use your brain 🧠 and trust your gut.

The brain-gut connection knows the truth on an instinctual and primal level to alert and protect you.

Sensory information is interpreted in the brain and then a complex  network of neurons, chemicals, and hormones alert us of a wide variety of emotions such as pain, pleasure, hunger, stress or danger.

Two-way brain-gut interactions may worsen outcome after TBI — ScienceDaily

University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have found a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute to increased infections in these patients, and may also worsen chronic brain damage.

This is the first study to find that TBI in mice can trigger delayed, long-term changes in the colon and that subsequent…