Suffering from chronic stress? Here are some signs it's affecting your gut health.
or experiences stage fright knows how the nerve-racking anticipation of having to get up in front of a crowd for a presentation can cause gut-churning indigestion. In the age of COVID-19, the same brain-to-gut stress response can happen just before sharing your screen during a Zoom call or making a company-wide PowerPoint presentation in a virtual meeting.out, these brain-gut connections create a superhighway of back-and-forth communication that can snowball out of control.
Interestingly, Strick and Levinthal speculate that the sympathetic nervous system—which facilitates"fight or flight" responses—sends brain-to-gut messages along vagal pathways more closely tied to motor regions of the cerebral cortex. According to the authors:"These insights also could change clinical gastroenterology practice." Having a better understanding of how brain-to-gut connections exert control over the stomach could lead to new and better ways for gastroenterologists to treat bowel problems and GI disorders.Helicobacter pylori
, that can provoke peptic ulcers. Hacking brain-gut connections from the top-down could adjust gastric secretions in a way that makes the stomach less hospitable to bacterial invaders. "Several common gut disorders, such as dyspepsia or irritable bowel syndrome, might not get better with current treatments," Levinthal concluded."Our results provide cortical targets that will be critical for developing new brain-based therapies that might be helpful for our patients."David J. Levinthal and Peter L. Strick "Multiple Areas of the Cerebral Cortex Influence the Stomach.
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