We all know how essential the spine and nervous system are, collecting information and directing everything that happens inside of us every moment of our life. What you may not realize is, from before we’re born we have a second gut-focused nervous system, called the Enteric Nervous System, because our digestive system is so central to our overall health and wellbeing.

If your gut doesn’t work right you would expect and often experience digestive problems such as reflux, constipation, diarrhea, poor absorption, IBS, Crohn’s and colitis. Recently, research has shown how much our mental, emotional and physical wellbeing depend on our gut health and specifically on the bacteria there. In fact, many of today’s most serious and prevalent conditions, such as anxiety, depression, ADD and impaired immunity have been shown to be linked to an unhealthy gut through the Gut-Brain Connection.