Have you ever heard the term: “heal the gut, heal the brain”? This comes from the understanding that there is an undeniable link between your gut and your brain.
In other words, your gut affects your brain, and your brain affects the gut. There is no way around this.
A simple way to indicate this connection is to think about how you feel before or during stressful situations. Do you feel a knot in your stomach before you are about to speak in front of a group of people? Do you feel nauseous when you are under a lot of stress?
On the other hand, you may even feel butterflies in your stomach when you are about to see someone you love dearly. Either way, the feelings we get in our stomach are directly linked to what is happening in the brain.
The connection between your gut and brain does not travel in one direction only. In other words, it’s not only our brain that creates a physical experience in our stomach. Our gut health can also determine what happens in the brain.
Therefore, gut issues can be the cause or the product of depression, anxiety, and stress.
The connection between our guts and our brains becomes even more clear when a person experiences gastrointestinal problems without any obvious physical cause.
However, with prolonged stress and anxiety, we can develop serious gastrointestinal complications such as stomach ulcers, chronic reflux, and irritable bowel syndrome to name a few.
Additionally, it has been found that many people with gastrointestinal disorders perceive pain more acutely than people who do not suffer from these issues.
This is because their brains are more responsive to signals from the gut, and one of these is the pain signal. Furthermore, emotional stress can make existing pain even worse.
When combined, poor gut health, stress, and anxiety can bring on a number of secondary issues such as mental health issues as well as serious gastrointestinal disease.
Many people who experience stress, anxiety, or depression are not willing to take medication to alleviate the symptoms. In some cases, improving your gut health can minimize the symptoms associated with these issues.
Here is how you can improve your gut health:
Managing stress can be difficult because our modern-day lifestyles are demanding. With long working hours, high-pressure jobs, and unhealthy diets, avoiding stress is almost impossible.
What is possible is finding ways to minimize the effects stress has on our bodies. Body Stress Release is one of the most powerful ways to alleviate symptoms of stress including pain, anxiety, and sleeplessness.
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