Lectins and the Blood-Brain Axis
For many people, food feels like it acts only in the stomach. You eat something, your belly responds, and the story seems to stay in the digestive tract.
For many people, food feels like it acts only in the stomach. You eat something, your belly responds, and the story seems to stay in the digestive tract.
Most people think of digestion as a mechanical process. Food goes in, the stomach breaks it down, nutrients get absorbed, and the rest moves along.
The gut does some of its quietest work while the rest of the body is winding down. Long after the last bite of the day, the digestive tract is still sorting, signaling, cleaning, repairing, and preparing for the next cycle of food.