This chapter explores how emotions like stress and anxiety can influence the gut brain axis, leading to physical sensations in the stomach. It also introduces the role of the autonomic nervous system in controlling digestion and discusses the enteric nervous system, or 'second brain', which controls gut movement.
When you get nervous, can you feel it in your stomach?
The gut-brain connection is something many of us have experienced but probably not given much thought to.
Research into this connection has led to the rise of a seemingly unexpected treatment for IBS: hypnotherapy.
Producer Danni Stewart investigates how Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be treated.