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How to Enhance Your Gut Microbiome for Brain & Overall Health

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How Do Hormones Affect Your Behavior?

G l p one is an example of how a hormon pathway can impact the activity of brain circuits that are directly involved in a particular behavior. It's also about this subconscious signalling that's coming from your body all the time, waves of hormones, waves of nerve cell signals and electrical signals. The next time you find yourself reaching for food, or you find yourself wanting a particular sweet thing or fatty thing or something that contains a lot of amino acids, it has a lot to do with what my gut is telling my brain. You might think, ah, i think i want that particular food,. But actually that's not a decision that i'm making on a purely rational basis. It has

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