Why You Should 'Rewild' Your Diet to Help Your Microbiome
The community of microorganisms that live inside of your stomach is one of the most important markers of health, physically and psychologically.
12 July, 2017
I mean, you don't have to boil a rattlesnake but feel free. (Photo: Gerry Penny/AFP/Getty Images)
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Dr Emeran Mayer: Your Gut Processes Emotion and Regulates Health While You Sleep
Your brain isn't the only organ processing your day while you sleep. Dr. Emeran Mayer explains the circular processing of emotion and memory that goes on between your brain and your digestive system, and how the latter can "dream".
26 October, 2016
There is so much more going on in your sleep than you think.
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Depression, Serotonin, and the Mind-Gut Connection
Neuroscientists now think of the gut as a "second brain"; it independently controls your digestive processes and is in constant conversation with your main brain. What do they talk about? Depression, theorizes Dr Emeran Mayer.
18 October, 2016
We all feel things in our gut – intuitions that give us subtle physiological alerts, stress and anxiety that unsettle us, bad reactions to food, and conversely feelings of contentment from the right food, or flutters from an exciting experience. But according to Dr Emeran Mayer, what we feel is just a small fraction of what’s going on in a region of our body that is still quite mysterious – even to the experts.
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