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Diego Bohórquez: Gut to Brain – Listen Up!

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Is There a Connection Between the Nervous System and the Brain?

The circuitry involved in this process can be important in illnesses like parkinson's. This direct connectivity of the neuropot cells with a vagos nerve, with the vagos neurons that go up into brain could help prevent pathagens from spreading through gut to brain. So those are two very distinct dimensions of what this connectivity, this physical connectivity, brings in. One is the fact of perceiving the specific type of foods. The other one is that this could also be a path for pathagens, two axis entraero system.

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