Your gut is your "second brain" - Interesting

[packman]

Using a newly developed imaging technique, a team of researchers in Australia has directly observed a unique neural motor firing pattern outside of the brain or central nervous system. The pattern of neuronal firing, in the intestine, showed exactly how our enteric nervous system coordinates contractions in our gastrointestinal tract.

The enteric nervous system (ENS) is a massive mesh of neurons located in our gastrointestinal tract. It’s the largest collection of neurons found in the body outside of the brain, and because of its ability to operate entirely independently it has often been referred to as our “second brain.”

It is only recently that science has begun to seriously look at how this so-called second brain actually functions. While we have countless studies correlating neuronal firing in the brain with assorted physical actions, there has been little examination into how neuronal firing in the ENS results in intestinal muscle activity.


http://extragoodshit.phlap.net/index.php/unique-neuronal-firing-patterns-in-our-second-brain-observed-for-the-first-time/#more-463209

https://www.livescience.com/62683-colon-brain-neuron-firing-pattern-detected.html

[True Dough]

1. OMG!

I've been inundating my "second brain" with date squares and banana bread! Oh well, I'm feeding my mind, I suppose.

[Anon-C]

2. K&R! Nt

[lapfog_1]

3. reminds me of what my brother in law... the ER doc... told me 40 years ago

we watched a bird swoop down and eat a bug right in front of us... then, as the bird flew away, it crapped right on the roof of our car.

"One bug in, one bug out... it's the perfect example of the involuntary gut response" he exclaimed.

[marylandblue]

4. If my gut is my second braiin, I must very smart

Because I have a lot of "brain tissue" there.

[packman]

5. I just spent two days with my gut

and some oysters that were arguing that I shouldn't be alive or at least 10 feet from a bathroom.

[MicaelS]

6. I guess Bush was wiser than we knew.

[eShirl]

7. that's why Trump's such a clown

it's his inner Ronald McDonald

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I have gerd, colitis, and am bipolar. There seems to be a

higher incidence of mental illness among folks with GI conditions.