My stomach’s in knots… It’s taking hold of me… I’m scared to death. I’m having trouble digesting what he’s told me…
Behind these popular expressions, isn’t there a popular wisdom that has made the link between our emotions and our intestines?
Do our emotions influence our intestines?
Or does the state of our flora influence our emotions?
Or are the two linked?
The enteric nervous system is in constant communication with the intestinal microbiota, whose influence on our behaviour and the genesis of neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases, intestinal inflammation and psychopathologies is being discovered more and more every day.
Observations, in the light of the most recent studies, of the ‘factory of the stomach’ and its links with the brain.