I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

Welcome back. So in this podcast, we're going to do the gut brain connection something I affectionately call friends with benefits.

This is a great one. Your gut is your second brain.

Your gut is loaded with nervous tissue.

There's a direct connection between your gut and your brain.

We feel emotional states in our gut.

You get butterflies when you're excited,

lose stools when you're upset,

when you feel anxious, depressed, stressed, or grief,

it's often felt in your gut.

So we know this intuitively, but now science is actually showing.

There's a direct connection between your gut and your brain.

And your gut lining is actually only a single cell layer thick.

So that's the barrier between the outside world

and the inside world.

Which is really important because if you, I mean if it's a single cell layer and it's easily damaged

you can see the problem.

So it's, your gut is your initial defense against outside invaders.

So there's a lot of trouble when it breaks down and it's easily damaged.

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