What the Gut?

What the gut?

How does our gut health effect our mood?

For as long as I can remember, I just assumed that I would always struggle with certain mood issues.  I just thought that I was one of the people who had to deal with emotional struggles.

What I’ve learned over the last year is that our gut health impacts our mood and emotions.  I’ve learned these things, but just over the last couple months, I’ve actually experienced these things.  I’ve felt exactly the improvements with my mood that I’ve learned about.

Over the last couple months, I’ve made it my mission to heal my own gut out of absolute necessity.  And as an exciting bonus in addition to healing my gut, I’ve begun to heal my brain and my mood.  My mood changes have been a total surprise to me. 

And now that I’ve looked into more research and studied more about how the brain, gut and our moods are connected, it’s even more fun for me to keep making changes.  It’s seriously fun to feel better and know that each healthy habit I create is helping me feel more calm, more relaxed, more at ease and more focused.

This is one of my favorite quotes from Dr Amen’s book Change your Brain Change Your Life.  “Our gut is one of the most important organs for the health of our brain.”  This is just the reminder that I need to keep me inspired to learn more, implement more and share more about the gut-brain connection.

Our gut is called our second brain for a good reason.  The gut is loaded with nervous tissue and is in direct communication with our brains.

I recorded a video sharing 4 different ways that our gut health impacts our moods.

You can watch that video on YouTube by clicking below.

Thanks for spending a few minutes with me today.

Enjoy your day.