How Trusting Your Gut Can Increase Wellbeing

You've probably heard the expression gut feeling or gut reaction.Well, it turns out our bellies are more than simply places todigest the food we eat. In the early 1900s, Byron Robinson,physician and researcher, wrote The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain, inwhich he explains that humans actually have two brains: one in ourstomachs and the other in our heads. The abdominal brain isindependent from the cerebral brain and receives and generatesinformation through a complex web of some 100 million neuronsembedded in the walls of the digestive tract. An emerging field ofneurogastroenterology is beginning

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