YOUR GUT AND YOUR BRAIN CONNECTION

The Gut/Brain Connection for Your Health

Messages: Your gut and brain send messages back and forth to each other. These messages travel back and forth from gut to brain all the time, and if any of those messages are altered for any reason, your brain and body health suffers. There are 400X more messages from your gut up to your brain than there are from your brain down to your gut! You have more neurotransmitters in your gut than in your brain! As you can see, your gut is highly wired with your brain. That's why it's very important to keep both your gut and your brain healthy.

Gut bacteria: There are up to 3 pounds of bacteria in your gut! There are 100X more bacterial genes in your gut than you have cells in your body! A growing group of researchers around the world are investigating how the microbiome, as this bacterial ecosystem is known, regulates how people think and feel. As we've seen, the microbiome in your gut is physically and chemically connected to your brain. Scientists have found evidence that this assemblage of bacteria—about 1,000 different species of bacteria, trillions of cells that together weigh between one and three lbs—could play a crucial role in autism, anxiety, depression, and other disorders. Heal the gut, you will help heal the brain. Emotional, psychiatric, and behavioral symptoms are triggered by an imbalance of your gut bacteria.

What your gut bacteria does: Your eco-system of bacteria in your body must be balanced to promote healing. Your gut produces healing compounds and vitamins; regulates hormones; excretes toxins, builds your body’s immunity, defends against disease-causing bacteria, helps control your weight by affecting your metabolism. Diabetes and obesity are both associated with less diversity of gut bacteria. Whew! Many types of gut bacteria must be in balance for you to be healthy.

Depression: Gut leakiness markers are greatly increased in people with depression. Emotional, psychiatric, and behavioral symptoms are triggered by problems in the gut. Depression and inflammatory disorder may have origins in your gut. Gut leakiness markers are greatly increased in people with depression. Emotional, psychiatric, and behavioral symptoms are triggered by problems in the gut.

Help: Ensuring you’re getting enough pre- and pro biotics is very important to maintain equilibrium of your gut bacteria, and therefore your overall health. Prebiotics are food for probiotics, to keep them alive. It's very important to have both prebiotics and probiotics in your system, not only for your physical health, but also for your brain health. Probiotics without prebiotics are useless. Help your health by ensuring you are getting enough prebiotics and probiotics daily.

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