How does the brain and intestines work in connection with each other?

Has everyone ever been like this? 🤔👉 Excited, stomachache, stress, not eating anything... or hungry more than usual, or nervous on the first date often makes it feel like a "flying butterfly in the stomach." 🦋

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These symptoms are not a matter of the stomach alone, but of the connection between the brain and the intestines, which is affected by our emotions.

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🔄 How does the brain and the intestines connect?

1. Through the nerve, the Vagus nerve, connects the brain to the intestines and the "Enteric nervous system," which controls squeezing and digestion.

2. Through chemicals and hormones such as serotonin, melatonin or ghrelin / leptin, microbes in the gut play an important role because they help create / stimulate the secretion of these substances.

🧐 know? Stress, anxiety or depression result in slow / incomplete digestion, causing some nutrients to reach the intestines, which, if it is a poor bacterial diet, will damage the gut microbiome. 🦠

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How emotions affect the stomach. Let's see!

😖 Stressful, ⏩ anorexic or eating abnormally much.

It is caused by stress, affecting levels of hormones that regulate hunger and satiety, such as the hormones cortisol and ghrelin, thus affecting eating habits.

🥹 Excited, ⏩ abdominal pain, shit pain.

When we are excited, the brain sends signals through the vagus nerve to the intestines, causing the intestines to squeeze faster or unevenly, causing abdominal pain or immediate need to go to the bathroom.

☺️ nervous. ⏩ Butterfly flies in the stomach.

The brain sends stress signals through the vagus nerve, stimulating adrenaline, causing more blood to feed the muscles, slowing down the digestive system, causing strange feelings in the stomach, like butterflies flying.

😢 Anxious, ⏩ diarrhea or constipation.

The body is in a state of "fight or flight," affecting the vagus nerve, causing the digestive system to be disturbed, may be digested unusually slowly or quickly, so there is flatulence, constipation or diarrhea.

😭 Sad ⏩ Flatulence Weight Up / Down

Sadness can upset the intestinal microbial balance, affecting digestion and absorption of food, thus causing flatulence and weight change.

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We can see that the intestines are very much linked to the brain. For people with chronic digestive problems, reducing stress, reducing anxiety, and balancing the microbes in the intestines will help the digestive system regain its function.

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What about you? When stressed or worried, what signal does the intestines send?

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