Go with your gut: All about the gut-brain connection

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Go with your gut: All about the gut-brain connection

By Carolyn McCusker

Published July 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM EDT

Gut-brain connection or gut brain axis. Concept art showing the health connection from the gut to the brain. 3d illustration.

This show's all about guts! How are our guts and our brains connected? How much of our emotional lives come from our stomachs? And how, across history, did our digestive systems become such pivotal parts of our identity?

GUESTS:

Diego Boh贸rquez: Gut-brain neuroscientist
Elsa Richardson: Historian of health and medicine and the author of the book,
Julie Balsamo: Gut health dietician

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Colin McEnroe, Lateshia Peters, Lily Tyson, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired on December 7, 2023.

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Carolyn McCusker

Carolyn McCusker helps produce The Colin McEnroe Show. She loves making true radio stories and listening to fake ones. In the past, she鈥檚 worked for NPR and WNYC, and she鈥檚 glad to be back at CT Public after interning in 2019. Carolyn can be reached at cmccusker@ctpublic.org.

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Go with your gut: All about the gut-brain connection