The Gut-Brain connection as a model for holistic and functional medicine.
The human body is very complex and is made even more complex when you include the symbiotic and interrelated exchanges between our bodies and the living body of life that is called the 'microbiome' in our intestines. Recent research continues to point to a bi-directional relationship between our gut (and the organisms that inhabit it) and our mental health, among other things, such as foods we prefer. Research is repeatedly showing that psychological stress can alter and nega