The human body is a machine that is full of wonders. Consider this
fact – our stomach has neurotransmitters (nerve cells) similar to the
brain means our stomach is our second brain.
According to Dr. Michael Gershon, M.D., author of `The Second Brain’
(HarperCollins, 1999), and a neurobiologist at New York’s
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the stomach is our second brain
with an independent network of over 100 million nerve cells in the gut,
that not only signals our bodies to stress but causes ailment. With the
collection of around 100 million nerve cells, the stomach in fact
contains the second largest accumulation of nerve cells in the human
body after the brain.
What’s more, researchers have found all the typical cell characteristics
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Second Brain in Human Stomach:
According to Dr. Michael Gershon, M.D., author of `The Second Brain’
(HarperCollins, 1999), and a neurobiologist at New York’s
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the stomach is our second brain
with an independent network of over 100 million nerve cells in the gut,
that not only signals our bodies to stress but causes ailment. With the
collection of around 100 million nerve cells, the stomach in fact
contains the second largest accumulation of nerve cells in the human
body after the brain.What’s more, researchers have found all the typical cell characteristics
