The second brain is in the stomach

According to the latest research by major scientists, the digestive organ helps us feel what is happening in the body, like a second brain.

The digestive organ helps us feel what is happening
in the body.(Photo: Howstuffworks)

Of course, the digestive organ is not capable of thinking, but more or less does the equally important function of the brain is to regulate hormonal activities. Therefore, it was dubbed the ' second brain '. ' The second brain ' in addition to ' food processing ' nourishes the body and bears the burden of being the center of human basic emotions such as anger, happiness, excitement, sadness.

According to Dr. Michael Herson, of Columbia University, the stomach wall and other organs of the digestive tract are covered by a network of neurons that number up to 100 million neurons. The ' abdomen brain' interacts with the ' head brain ', which is quite large in determining our character as well as playing a key role in the appearance of several diseases.

The bowel of the digestive system is responsible for producing neurotransmitters (neuromediator, which receives nerve impulses and transmits it to parts of the body), specific to the brain. According to the conclusion of scientists in the Herson group, 95% of these transmitters are serotonin, produced in the stomach.

The nervous system also produces a large amount of endorphin - a protid that is often mistakenly referred to as the ' hormone of happiness '. In fact, it is not hormonal, even though the feeling of satisfaction is caused by itself. Therefore, psychologists often recommend that women 'C cough their husbands eat whatever they want .'

In addition, it has been demonstrated that gastric hormones such as cortisone and melatonin also regulate the state of sleep, waking or dreaming and the center of the sense of pain right in the ' second brain ', No It is a coincidence that many organs such as the heart when ' problematic ' signal through pain in the stomach. Even the flu in older people is often due to problems in the nervous system and digestive system because these systems produce insufficient melatonin at that time.

However, it's not just hormones that define our emotions. During the experiment, scientists stimulated the stomach while taking continuous scans to monitor the brain activity of patients and in this way they monitored diseases of the digestive system. The results show that the human brain responds to stimuli in different regions. People in the region refreshed, the people in the area were uncomfortable

Scientists found that in the future, some digestive diseases will be able to treat neurons, such as irritable bowel syndrome and gastritis that are caused by the nervous system, when neurons are ' second brain ' caused by excessive secretion of serotonin.

The announcements of Herson's group are very responsive by University of California professor Emaran Meyer. He said that the task of psychiatrists needed to know how to adjust the response of the somatic cell, considering the neurological activities not only at the ' brain on the head ' but also the ' inner brain '. patient's.

Herson also concluded that the neurons of the digestive system can completely replace the brain above the head when malfunctioning: ' The nervous system in the digestive system is made much more complicated than the spinal cord. It transmits signals to the brain (on the head) and sends back the response pulses '.

It is clear that the nervous system of the digestive system is responsible for the mental, emotional states and when properly stimulated, it can reduce depressive syndrome as well as the factors that cause epilepsy. We need to delve deeper into the activity of the ' second brain' in order to cure many diseases.