Your Gut Matters

Your gut matters! I was speaking in Sydney, Australia last month and if you can see this slide, it explains that; Two thirds of your immune system is in the digestive system 80-90% of serotonin is made in digestive system The gut nervous system is often called “your second brain” I even took my model of […]

Your Gut has a Mind of Its own

[youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F9MZlQ0-oE”]”The second brain contains some 100 million neurons, more than in either the spinal cord or the peripheral nervous system”,  says Michael Gershon, M.D. an expert in the  field of neurogastroenterology and author of the 1998 book The Second Brain(HarperCollins). The mind in the gut is called the enteric nervous systemand uses more than […]