Gut Health and The Emotional Connection

Maintaining our emotional health is crucial for leading a well-balanced life and ensuring our physical well-being continues to improve. Our inner world and outer world are intricately connected, and what we think or feel can have a significant impact on our overall well-being. This is why it’s essential to take care of our emotional health just as much as our physical health.

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The connection between our emotions and natural healing

Your digestive system is the epicenter of our thoughts, emotions, and complete existence. In ancient times, it was believed that our gut region was actually where our brain was located. Cultures like India and Egypt respectively, believed that it was through our digestive system, that all reasoning, thought, and emotion was located. While this may have been laughable a few years ago, recent studies have come out that shows our ancestors may not have been as far off as we previously believed.

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Have you ever experienced a ‘gut feeling’? Or maybe ‘butterflies in the stomach’? Often when asked why we make certain decisions we will say, ‘I went with my gut’. We use these terms in a metaphorical sense to convey the fact that our gut influences our brain, even if we aren’t necessarily conscious of it. Everything from feelings of anxiety, to anger, joy and sadness can all be linked to the health of our gut.

If this is in fact the truth, then why haven’t we heard of this before? Modern medical science can be incredibly slow when it comes to progress. Specifically, medical science has been slow to realize just how deep the connections between our gut and brain actually are. This wasn’t fully appreciated until recent long-term studies and in-depth research was conducted over the gut/brain. As of right now many of the leading authorities, from John Hopkins, to the Cleveland Clinic, acknowledge the connection.

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The gut and the brain talk to each other constantly. An incredibly complex system of nerves and synapses, functioning like a high tech railway. By sending electrical signals at lightspeed, this is what results in what we think of as communication.

As complex as this may sound your brain shares a direct connection with your gut. The secret to understanding this is our nervous system. If you were to see your nervous system outlaid, what you would see would resemble a contorted spiderweb. All over your body, there are dozens of nerves functioning like miniature electric wires, sending a plethora of ‘signals’ all throughout our bodies. Everything, from sensations of pain, to feelings of joy, can be attributed to our nerves. Our nerves act as a sort of high tech railroad system for our body, and that leads us all the way back to our gut.

According to a study published by the National Institute of Health in 2020, researchers were able to conclude there was a link with stress, depression and our gut. It was previously assumed that depression and stress were external factors, researchers found that the problem is in fact an internal issue. The study’s researchers found that when the gut was thrown out of balance by eating a poor diet, that stress and depression would inevitable result. At the conclusion the reachers called it a ‘dynamic human-microbe cycle’.

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Think of your gut not as a dumping ground for food, but instead as a highly connected supercomputer. Just like you would never deliberately download malware into your phone or computer, you should think of food in a similar manner.

So many people tend to think of our gut as little more than a dumping ground for food. It’s hard to think about quality when we’re chomping on a bacon-double cheeseburger or what have you. It’s easy to shrug off any potentially negative effects, after all, the worst that could happen is we gain a few extra pounds right? Unfortunately, when we dump trashy foods into our digestion, a chain reaction takes place. Your gut goes into distress, sending signals back to your brain letting it know how ‘unhappy’ it is, your brain responds by influencing your emotions. When we are feeling depressed or stressed without having a clear reason, the problem is very likely your gut trying to let you know it doesn’t appreciate the diet you are eating.

Our understanding of the gut/brain connection is very much in its infancy stages. There is so much we have yet to learn, but here is what we already understand. We already understand that our so-called ‘gut feeling’ is more than just a trite phrase. As it turns out, our ‘gut instinct’ has an official name. The ‘enteric nervous system’ as it has been dubbed by mainstream scientists. This can be a confusing term for the average layman, and to make it even more baffling, scientists have estimated that there are around 100 million nerve cells lining our entire digestive system. Just to give you an idea of how incredibly complex our digestive system truly is.

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What practical applications does this bit of trivia do for us? Thankfully we don’t have to have a train of initials at the end of our names in order to put this all into perspective. Specifically it means that our emotions have a direct connection to our health. Not long ago, medical researchers hypothesized that depression and anxiety caused gastrointestinal distress. Now with recent research, scientists have come to realize that it is actually the other way around. It is actually our gastrointestinal system, that controls everything, rather than the other way around.

The truth about eating your feelings: Your emotions are actually eating you. Think of negative emotions as the warning light for your internal health. Should you continue to ignore these important signals, then your health will inevitably suffer.

What we are discussing here has radical implications for our health, and for society as a whole. Could it really be possible that so many of our personal and societal problems could be linked to the health of our gut? Could this be the proverbial missing link we have been searching for?

Let’s consider the issue of emotional eating. We are all familiar with individuals who ‘eat their feelings’ or ‘eat for comfort’. Hopefully as this article has been able to illustrate, this has more basis than you might think. It was believed for the longest time that it was our emotions that caused us to eat in a potentially destructive manner. However research is now going out to dispute this previously held assertion. It now seems that it is actually our diet that affects our emotional health.

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This is a radical restructuring of what we have always thought about health and wellness. Instead of thinking of our health as something abstract, as something ‘other’, now we can properly think of our health as interconnected with the rest of our body. Far too many are trying to solve their problems in reverse. We’ve all heard the worn out phrase about putting the ‘cart before the phrase’. That is true, but maybe it would be more accurate to say that it would be similar to trying to start a car without an engine.

This has the potential to change so much of what we have thought about health and wellness. So often we have been attempting to take supplements or attempt to implement a dietary change in hopes that it may improve our health for the better. However, as the latest research is now showing, this has been somewhat of a red herring for all this time. Instead of trying to solve a problem in reverse, it is vital that we get the foundation correct. If we wish to fix our gut health, then we must put our body into an ideal state for healing. Our body is an impressive work of engineering, and if you give your body the proper resources, then the process of healing will be initiated from there.

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The incredible power of probiotics. Probiotics are capable of repopulating your gut with all the necessary microbes to function at an optimal level. Capable of defending your gut from harmful bacteria, as well as repairing any damage suffered by toxic imbalances.

In order to fully unlock the full potential of our gut health, it is essential that we understand probiotics. Probiotics function very similarly to batteries for our gut. They enable us to keep a healthy gut flora, which is where thing become interesting. Many do not realize how essential it is to keep our gut populated with ‘good bacteria’.

At this point you are probably wondering what exactly going on here All your life you have undoubtedly been told that bacteria is bad for you, but as it so happens, this is not true. Our gut is a multi-layered, very complex microbiome. Bacteria is equally as complex. While we think of bacteria in the negative sense, the truth is that bacteria occurs naturally throughout nature. Bacteria aids by confuting to the multi-layered microbiome of our world, that includes our gut. It may help if you think of your gut as garden. If you want a healthy garden, then you need good healthy soil in order to grow an abundance of plants. Your gut functions in a similar manner.

The ideal way to get as many probiotics as you can is to eat fermented foods. Fermented foods such as sauerkraut, kefir, and kombucha offer the body a massive load of probiotics. Valuable probiotics that are invaluable for boosting our immune and allow our gut to be populated with all the necessary flora. Remember our example the garden. Your gut works similar to a garden, so make sure that you are cultivating a healthy environment.