Brain and Gut

What’s old is new again.  Physicians and philosophers in Ancient Greece and Rome (and the rest of the Ancient World) believed that what you ate and how you digested it affected, or even determined, how smart you were and what your character was.

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal sums up some recent research.

New research indicates problems in the gut may cause problems in the brain, just as a mental ailment, such as anxiety, can upset the stomach.

via A Gut Check for Many Ailments – WSJ.com.

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