Dr. Shebani Sethi

She would get kicked out of school all day, on the bus ride home, they'd have to stop the bus 10 times. She was terrorizing her little sister, tearing up pictures of the family, just kind of little nuts. I did testing and she didn't have any gut symptoms, but we found really high levels of bacterial overgrowth and bad bugs in her gut and yeast overgrowth.

She would get kicked out of school all day, on the bus ride home, they'd have to stop the bus 10 times. She was terrorizing her little sister, tearing up pictures of the family, just kind of little nuts. I did testing and she didn't have any gut symptoms, but we found really high levels of bacterial overgrowth and bad bugs in her gut and yeast overgrowth.

She would get kicked out of school all day, on the bus ride home, they'd have to stop the bus 10 times. She was terrorizing her little sister, tearing up pictures of the family, just kind of little nuts. I did testing and she didn't have any gut symptoms, but we found really high levels of bacterial overgrowth and bad bugs in her gut and yeast overgrowth.

And again, I gave her an antibiotic, an antifungal, and literally overnight, she turned into this beautiful, sweet little girl. So that made me think, oh my God, there's a whole untapped world here that we're missing of how to help people who not only have physical health issues, but also have mental health issues. So today we're gonna dive deep into the gut-brain connection.

And again, I gave her an antibiotic, an antifungal, and literally overnight, she turned into this beautiful, sweet little girl. So that made me think, oh my God, there's a whole untapped world here that we're missing of how to help people who not only have physical health issues, but also have mental health issues. So today we're gonna dive deep into the gut-brain connection.

And again, I gave her an antibiotic, an antifungal, and literally overnight, she turned into this beautiful, sweet little girl. So that made me think, oh my God, there's a whole untapped world here that we're missing of how to help people who not only have physical health issues, but also have mental health issues. So today we're gonna dive deep into the gut-brain connection.

We're gonna share some functional medicine tools that will help support your gut health and obviously your mood and mental health too. So what is this gut-brain connection exactly? Well, let's go into the science. The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, brain cells. nerve cells, right? The gut also has a nervous system.

We're gonna share some functional medicine tools that will help support your gut health and obviously your mood and mental health too. So what is this gut-brain connection exactly? Well, let's go into the science. The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, brain cells. nerve cells, right? The gut also has a nervous system.

We're gonna share some functional medicine tools that will help support your gut health and obviously your mood and mental health too. So what is this gut-brain connection exactly? Well, let's go into the science. The human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons, brain cells. nerve cells, right? The gut also has a nervous system.

It's called the second brain, also known as the enteric nervous system. Enteric just means gut, fancy medical word. And this contains, get this, 500 million neurons. So there's five times as many neurons in your gut as in your brain. Now there's a bi-directional highway between the brain brain and the gut brain. And this is called the vagus nerve.

It's called the second brain, also known as the enteric nervous system. Enteric just means gut, fancy medical word. And this contains, get this, 500 million neurons. So there's five times as many neurons in your gut as in your brain. Now there's a bi-directional highway between the brain brain and the gut brain. And this is called the vagus nerve.

It's called the second brain, also known as the enteric nervous system. Enteric just means gut, fancy medical word. And this contains, get this, 500 million neurons. So there's five times as many neurons in your gut as in your brain. Now there's a bi-directional highway between the brain brain and the gut brain. And this is called the vagus nerve.

And it links our enteric nervous system with our brain and their central nervous system. And it's sending and receiving signals all the time. So whatever's happening in your brain, mood, stress, emotions, impacts your gut function. And whatever's happening in your gut impacts your brain function, right? Mind-body, body-mind. We talk about this. I felt sick to my stomach. I have gut feelings.

And it links our enteric nervous system with our brain and their central nervous system. And it's sending and receiving signals all the time. So whatever's happening in your brain, mood, stress, emotions, impacts your gut function. And whatever's happening in your gut impacts your brain function, right? Mind-body, body-mind. We talk about this. I felt sick to my stomach. I have gut feelings.

And it links our enteric nervous system with our brain and their central nervous system. And it's sending and receiving signals all the time. So whatever's happening in your brain, mood, stress, emotions, impacts your gut function. And whatever's happening in your gut impacts your brain function, right? Mind-body, body-mind. We talk about this. I felt sick to my stomach. I have gut feelings.

Maybe you're so nervous you had to run to the bathroom, right? This is the gut-brain connection at work. There was a study that looked at more than 1.2 million hospitalizations for irritable bowel and 4,000 hospitals.

Maybe you're so nervous you had to run to the bathroom, right? This is the gut-brain connection at work. There was a study that looked at more than 1.2 million hospitalizations for irritable bowel and 4,000 hospitals.

Maybe you're so nervous you had to run to the bathroom, right? This is the gut-brain connection at work. There was a study that looked at more than 1.2 million hospitalizations for irritable bowel and 4,000 hospitals.

And people with IBS or irritable bowel syndrome had three times higher risk of anxiety, two times greater risk of depression, and then two times greater risk of suicide ideation, meaning they were thinking of suicide versus the general population. Now we used to think that anxiety caused IBS. But now we know it's the other way around and a little bidirectional. So think about that.

And people with IBS or irritable bowel syndrome had three times higher risk of anxiety, two times greater risk of depression, and then two times greater risk of suicide ideation, meaning they were thinking of suicide versus the general population. Now we used to think that anxiety caused IBS. But now we know it's the other way around and a little bidirectional. So think about that.