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Why Is Your Gut Refusing to Feed Your Brain?
Deep inside your digestive system, bacteria are manufacturing a powerful substance that either shields your brain from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s - or abandons it to inflammation and decay. Most people’s guts have stopped producing enough of it, creating a silent breakdown in the body’s most critical communication pathway. The consequences show up as mood problems, brain fog, and worse - but almost nobody connects the dots.
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The Vagus nerve long recognized in Ancient Cultures health beliefs. The role of a healthy gut and butyrate protecting the gut lining to prevent the wrong things from leaking into the body and areas they are not supposed to be in makes it a foundation for our health. The first things to develop when we begin our journey to life, are from the mouth to the other end, the gut in between and with the spine. The Vagus nerve being part of the same. It's easy to see if we have a leaky gut situation and the Vagus nerve being irritated, damaged is going to short circuit the many over lapping systems from functioning properly. This is to say nothing about how offenders infiltrating outside the gut are likely to also be affected beyond the signaling traffic of the Vagus. It reasonable all kinds of cells, body functions would be buggered up. Being as we are being hit from all sides attempting to navigate in a toxic sea with all kinds of offenders a healthy gut as we can manage will likely help our internal infrastructure manage. Very important as until or if when we can regenerate, renew a healthier civilization to remove the Dis-Ease creators, a Healthy Gut is the primary starting point in the worst or even the best environmental conditions.
Dr. Mercola, what is the relative contribution of reducing brain insulin resistance and gut butyrate production to address and reduce ischemic stroke and Alzheimer's Disease. Here is Grok AI's answer: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNQ_eb8b3c3a-c817-41d3-8256-0c22c7b2ad4d