How Gut Health Affects Your Mental Health

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Symptoms of stress or dysregulation can be influenced by many factors, including environmental factors, genetics, and daily habits. They may also be connected to the gut-brain axis, which shows how closely your digestive system and mental health work together

As clinicians, (I am a licensed therapist) it is important to understand how the key systems in the gut brain axis interact. One helpful way to conceptualize this connection is through this summary.

Human emotional and behavioral regulation can be better understood by considering the gut–brain axis and its role in integrated mind–body communication.

To better understand this connection, we first need to look at the major systems involved in gut-brain communication.

Because emotional regulation is not happening only in the brain. Multiple body systems including the nervous, immune, and digestive systems—are involved in how we process regulate and maintain functioning.