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The War On The Tiny And Innocent
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(10-25-2024, 01:10 PM)Ray1990 Wrote: Antibiotics can cause IBS, so does sorbitol...

The gut really is a second brain and effectively has it's own senses and ways to react that are independent of the actual brain. 90% of serotonin we produce is done in the gut.

It's really fascinating stuff to read about, essentially antibiotics and food additives can literally have you hallucinating since the loss of a healthy gut biome means less nutrients (like b 12) and can seemingly have far reaching consequences.

In terms of serotonin there's the other side of the coin too, if the gut produces too much there's a chance of serotonin syndrome.

This is a fun rabbit-hole, the idea that the mind embodies not only in the right-brain, left-brain, hind-brain, etc., but also in the aggregate organism of the gut biota, like an ant colony having a seeming singular intelligence, and that's part of us, too. Connecting to the rest of the mind via neurotransmitters and other pathway, rather than the neuron connections elsewhere. Although I understand the gut has the most neurons in the body, other than the cranium, too?

It's weird thinking of ourselves as a symbiotic intelligence; a multi-species aggregate, but I guess that's really what we are. "Trust your gut", indeed.
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The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by UltraBudgie - 10-23-2024, 11:25 AM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Maxmars - 10-23-2024, 12:58 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by putnam6 - 10-23-2024, 04:44 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Maxmars - 10-23-2024, 05:04 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by putnam6 - 10-23-2024, 10:57 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Byrd - 10-23-2024, 10:41 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Ray1990 - 10-25-2024, 01:10 PM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by UltraBudgie - 10-27-2024, 08:19 AM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Maxmars - 10-24-2024, 10:52 AM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Maxmars - 10-25-2024, 09:01 AM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Sirius - 10-25-2024, 11:09 AM
RE: The War On The Tiny And Innocent - by Maxmars - 10-27-2024, 09:17 AM


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