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If you've got leaky gut, there is a very good chance that you have leaky brain.

Now, what do I mean by that? The brain normally has a communication system with your rest of your body.

And one of those main systems is a very large nerve that runs from your brain to all of your organs,

your heart, your lungs, your gut, called the vagus nerve.

Now, when I was in medical school, long ago, I was taught that the vagus nerve is the way

for the brain to talk to the gut and to kind of tell the gut what to do.

Come to find out that for every one fiber, and think of this literally

as a cable network or a telephone cable, for every fiber from the brain down to the gut,

there are nine fibers coming from the gut up to the brain.

And when this was discovered, we realized that there was a gut-brain connection.

It got even more interesting when it was discovered that there were as many neurons,

nerve cells in the gut as there were in the entire spinal

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