The Hidden Link Between Your Stomach and Your Mind
For decades, conventional medicine treated the brain and the digestive system as two entirely separate entities. Today, advanced functional medicine understands that they are intimately connected through the vagus nerve and the enteric nervous system.
What is the Microbiome?
Your gut microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. When these populations are out of balance (dysbiosis), it triggers systemic inflammation that crosses the blood-brain barrier.
3 Steps to Repair the Axis
Here is exactly how we address this in our clinical practice...