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Diego Bohórquez: Gut to Brain – Listen Up!

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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What's Going on in the Brain?

When food enters into our stomach or and our intestine, after weh'd been digested, it stimulates the release of some peptites that are released from the wall of the intestine. And tispeptites diffuse into the tissues and also diffuse into the blood stream. The idea was that possibly, eventually those peptites get to the brain, and that's how we feel full, right? That is certainly a 50 % of the story. Like a, dispeptites are necessary for us a to feel full, sarit. Some of those actually participating long term behaviors, like the memory of they cordinate the motility of a the digestive tracta other interorgan communications.

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