The appendix has recently been elevated from it's 'unnecessary' status, and it is discovered to produce melatonin as well as being a repository for beneficial gut probiotics. ...

People with healthy, diet-adapted gut flora, can subsist on very limited diets without vitamin deficiency diseases, because all of the vitamins can be obtained from bacteria growing in films coating the lining of the ...

Interesting look at how the gut and vagus nerve work together to create a whole other system of communication and how the hormones and neurotransmitters generated in the gut interact with other organs. ...

The vagus nerve is the brake on inflammation throughout the body. It plays a key role in heart disease, some cancers, and in fact it is involved in just about every serious disease we know of in western medicine. ...