Brain Power

a healthy brain is about feeling good

This revolution couldn’t come soon enough. By 2030, the number of people aged sixty years or over is predicted to grow by 56 per cent to 1.4 billion.2

and certainly worth being aware of as research progresses.

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the gut can talk to the brain in other ways, including through hormones, the immune system and through our gut microbes.

its ability to detect activity in our organs and communicate that important information back to the brain.

The vagus nerve is considered to be the body’s sixth sense,

The most direct is the vagus nerve, an information super-highway that sends signals from our gut to our central nervous system, and is a key player in the body’s ‘rest and digest’ mode.

The two-way communication between the gut and the brain is called the gut–brain axis, and information can travel back and forth in a number of ways.

This connection is so strong that scientists have come to call the gut our second brain, and are gleaning a better understanding than ever of how we can all nurture this connection to feel and think better.