Have you ever noticed how your appetite is impacted by how you feel? When you are anxious, depressed or stressed, you may overeat or struggle to eat at all. Either way, your digestive system will be off-kilter. A little short-term stress is OK, but when we experience stress in a sustained way, it becomes a problem and impacts the gut in some specific ways.
Your gut and brain are connected by the vagus nerve. Its job is to communicate information straight from your organs (specifically the gut) to the brain, and it’s a bidirectional relationship. If you’ve never heard of the vagus, it’s about time you had an introduction.
This long, wandering nerve starts at the base of your brain below the ears and continues along the side of
