Some Fun Info on Our Second Brain

I just finished reading his book, The Second Brain, and it was a revelation!  For years I have been telling my therapist that my gut has a mind of it's own and that after decades of therapy, anti-anxiety and depression drugs, meditation, prayer, exercise, diet, naturopathy, yoga, etc., etc., my belly STILL does whatever the heck it wants to!  So much for the notion that it all starts in the head.  This books PROVES that, because the colon can do it's thing even when a body is brain dead or paralyzed, it MUST have it's own brain.  I loved this book!  I want to give a copy to every physician I've seen in the last 25 years who loaded me up with "nerve" pills for a problem in my gut!

Keriamon said...
So none of the anti-depressants worked? They have recently found out that since the gut has more serotonin than the brain, that you can sometimes calm it down by using anti-depressants. But it's my understanding that only some of the newest anti-depressants work on the gut's brain.

While it's true that the gut produces vast amounts of serotonin, it is still not known how the anti-depressants actually work on either the brain or the gut.  For folks like me who suffer with C, anti-depressants are the kiss of death.  I am also not too fond of taking a med that works on the brain in ways that are still a mystery to science.  Why should I have to go throught the brain (which is really just fine, thank you very much!) to fix my belly?  It makes no sense to me.