Every emotional experience has two components. One is the sensing, the emotional feeling,

consciously, conscious awareness, and the other one is the emotion. Motion means movement or the action

that your body does, your autonomic nervous system implements. And so every time you have an emotion,

you have that emotional, this autonomic nervous system part

to it which essentially sends down signals to the gut to other organs as well to the heart

but the gut is particularly interesting in this respect and in the gut, the microbes get that signal as well.

We know that, for example, one autonomic nervous system mediator, neurotransmitter, no epinephrine

can act on microbes directly, changing their gene expression and behavior.

So every time you have this emotion, not only do you change your gut expression and behavior. So every time you have this emotion,

not only do you change your gut function

and the environment in which the microbes live in,

but you also directly talk to the microbes.

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