10-27-2024, 08:19 AM
(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.
