Digestion and Mental Health

Digestions and mental health

Perhaps, you’ve heard that gut health and mental health are closely related. Do you know what that actually means in real life? This relationship may be more complex than you realize. Digestion is actually a full-body process, starting in your brain, and involves a multi-system collaboration, including hormonal, endocrine, limbic, nervous, circulatory, and digestive systems. From the sense of smell to the release of hunger hormones to salivation to metabolism to breathing to relaxation, we actually need quite a bit of cooperation from our entire body to turn that chicken into absorbable nutrients and then discard. So, how does our mood or mental state affect digestion, and vice versa?

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