The Gut Brain Connection

BIOME IX and Brain Health 🧠 The gut has a huge impact on nearly every system in your body. The connection between the gut and the brain is especially fascinating. We’ve all had that feeling in our gut before when we know something just isn’t quite right. Call it an intuitive hit in your solar plexus. Or that punched in the gut feeling when you receive bad news. And I think everyone has experienced “butterflies 🦋 in the stomach” before a nerve-racking event. These sensations are a very real physiological event between the gut and the brain. 🧠

Scientists are referring to the gut as the "second brain" because like the brain, the gut has its own nervous system. Just as the brain operates within the central nervous system (CNS), the gut has the enteric nervous system (ENS). Similar to the brain, the enteric nervous system puts out more than 30 neurotransmitters.

In fact 95 percent of the body's serotonin is found in the gut. While your gut may not be actively thinking thoughts, it is certainly influencing your mood and emotions.

This connection goes even further as we now understand that certain microbiota in the gut directly influence the production of neurotransmitters.

For example, certain digestive disorders such as IBS are linked to higher rates of anxiety and depression due to their microbiota makeup. There are similar correlations found in conditions such as autism. BIOME IX plays a large role in establishing a healthy gut-brain relationship because of its influence on the microbiome.

It’s been discovered that BIOME IX may help protect the brain 🧠 directly by improving nerve cell adaptability and helping to regenerate nerve tissue. BIOME IX may also help to protect nervous tissue from becoming injured in the first place, and can even enhance the mitochondrial function of the brain. With these discoveries it’s not a surprise that BIOME IX is being used to treat different brain related diseases and disorders. 🌱

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