Here’s something you may not know about your body: it has two brains, and runs an ongoing puppet show. This is according to findings of recent research on the gut.
A welcome revelation for those who put their indulgences down to a lack of willpower is that your gut bugs are active and meaningful participants in your cravings too! As the authors of a study investigating whether our gastrointestinal microbiota could manipulate our eating behaviour put it, your microbes are like ‘microscopic puppet masters’.
So, how does this work? And how do we put a craving for healthy foods firmly back in the driver’s seat?
THE BRAIN-GUT-MICROBIOME AXIS
The brain-gut-microbiome (BGM) axis is central to our understanding of the signals that the brain
