Month: February 2022

The Gut-Brain Axis Is Essential To Health

We’ve all heard the saying “Trust your gut” as referring to trusting your deeper inner knowing, and when someone feels nervous you might remember the phrase of having “butterflies in my stomach” or for a difficult experience being “gut wrenching.” There is a good reason for this intuitive speech. We now know that your gut (enteric nervous system) is lined with over 100 million nerves, the very same tissues as your central nervous system.