The belly is much more intelligent than we’ve been taught to believe. Im sure youve heard the phrase, “Follow your gut.” In fact, we have lots of terms like that in our language:
*a gutsy person
*gut-level feeling
*gut it out
*have the guts
*trust your gut
It turns out that these slang phrases actually have a solid, scientific basis. Medical research has proven that there is a second brain in the body and it’s located in the belly.
This brain is made up of nerve cells lining the digestive tract. Scientists call it the enteric nervous system. It’s an extensive and highly complicated structure that actually consists of more neurons than are contained in the entire spine.
Dr. Michael Gershon, Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, has done extensive research demonstrating that the enteric nervous system operates as an independent, second brain within the body.
This belly brain is just as complex as the one in our heads. The enteric nervous system and the frontal lobe of the skull brain are actually formed from the same group of cells in the...
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