FEATURE: SDA FEATURE THE GUT-MIND CONNECT THOSE BUTTERFLIES IN YOUR STOMACH ACTUALLY HOLD SOME SCIENTIFIC TRUTH. As a matter of fact, yourAnd remarkably, it has been linked to gastrointestinal (G.I) systemalterations in mood, anxiety, depression, contains millions of nerves thatmemory, food cravings, eating behaviours branch from your gut, all the wayand ultimately life choices. up to your brain. Further to this, your gut produces neurotransmitters that sendTHE BODY’S 2ND BRAIN signals along that gut-brain highway, as well as containing buckets of bacteriaDubbed the body’s second brain, the gut that do all sorts of things that impactcontains over 500 million neurons and on your brain. plays a crucial role in both G.I health and many other body functions, including We call all this “The Gut-Mindthose in the mind. Interestingly, gut Connection”. neurons and neurotransmitters are 46 VOLUME 36 • ISSUE 2 2018