happier, healthier you
Hunger not only makes one moodier, it also makes
one more likely to be a high-risk taker, says a UK
study by researchers from the Institute of Neurology
and Department of Metabolism and Experimental
Therapeutics from University College London, so try
to avoid making an important decision on an empty,
growling stomach.
Mental fitness is not just about strengthening your
mind. It’s also about following your heart and
listening to your gut. And that’s not just popular
wisdom anymore. It’s science. Neurobiologist Dr.
Michael D. Gershon discovered that in fact we do
have a second brain in the stomach, which, with
100 million neurons, has the intelligence to run our
gut all on its own. Unfortunately, when there’s poor
cooperation between the brain in the head and the
brain in the gut, gastrointestinal problems arise,
including cramps and irritable bowel syndrome.
According to the Institute of HeartMath, the third
brain in our heart was first identified back in the
1960s by pioneer physiologists John and Beatrice
Lacey, who discovered our heart also has its own
intelligence and communicates with the brain in
the head, likely influencing how we think.
Looked at biologically, the heart’s efficiency is amazing. The heart works without interruption for
seventy to eighty years, without care or cleaning, without repair or replacement. Over a period of
seventy years, it beats one hundred thousand times a day, approximately forty million times a year—
nearly three billion pulsations all told. It pumps two gallons of blood per minute—well over one
hundred gallons per hour—through a vascular system about sixty thousand miles in length (over two
times the circumference of the earth.)
The heart starts beating in the unborn fetus before the brain has been formed. Scient