Your Gut: A Second Brain | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz Q&A
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The gut is considered a second brain by many experts.
According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, “‘The brain in your gut’ is revolutionizing medicine’s understanding of the links between digestion, mood, health and even the way you think.”
Gastroenterologist and bestselling author Dr. Will Bulsiewicz explores the gut-brain axis on this episode of The Exam Room Live with “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll.
On This Episode
- Enteric nervous system (ENS) explained
- How the gut and brain communicate
- Microbiome influence on mood
- IBS and IBD’s disruption of the gut-brain axis
- Digestive system, cognition, and memory
- Stress and anxiety may cause constipation and bloating
- Best foods to heal the gut
- And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. The belly is a second brain. That is an out there concept |
| 0:08.4 | yet we're hearing more and more people say that's actually true. Is that fair to say? |
| 0:13.6 | Actually it is and this is not sensationalism, this is not trying to be over the top with the |
| 0:18.2 | way that we describe things. This is actually completely, technically the correct way to |
| 0:22.0 | describe what we call the enteric nervous system. |
| 0:26.1 | So we have the central nervous system, that's our brain and our spinal cord and it's made up of all |
| 0:30.0 | these different nerves and obviously that's quite important to the way that we work. |
| 0:33.9 | And then there's the second brain, the enteric nervous system. This is our gut, this is our digestion, |
| 0:38.7 | this is how we break down our food. And what's interesting and powerful and the reason why we call it the |
| 0:46.3 | second brain is that your gut is capable of functioning completely |
| 0:51.8 | independently and that's because it's already pre-programmed. functioning completely independently. |
| 0:53.0 | And that's because it's already pre-programmed |
| 0:55.5 | through the enteric nervous system or the second brain. |
| 0:58.4 | So 500 million nerves carpeting your intestine. |
| 1:02.2 | Chuck, guess how many nerves there are in your spinal cord? |
| 1:05.0 | There's about a hundred million. So what that means, the math, five times, more nerves in our gut than we have in our spinal cord. That's crazy. |
| 1:13.7 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:24.3 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:27.3 | Racing health IQs, coast to coast and around the world in great cities like |
| 1:31.4 | Peoria, Arizona, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Grande, Vittoria, Brazil. |
| 1:37.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:42.0 | This is episode 25 of season. to make the world a healthier place. |
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