Rebecca Lombardi's List: R- body, brain, mood

• e second brain can control gut behavior independently of the brain, Gershon says
• 90 percent of the fibers in the primary visceral nerve, the vagus, carry information from the gut to the brain and not the other way around
• t 95 percent of the body's serotonin is found in the bowels
• . Irritable bowel syndrome—which afflicts more than two million Americans—also arises in part from too much serotonin in our entrails, and could perhaps be regarded as a "mental illness" of the second brain.

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