The Cartography of My Gut

06/2022

The state of my gut is almost always directly linked to the state of my heart.

There are my scientific reasons for this – one being that a lot of the body’s serotonin is produced by gut bacteria. When there is an imbalance in the stomach, there is an imbalance in how the human mind works, how your heart feels. When the fight between the good and the bad fails in your gut, the rest of your body suffers.

(There may be a bigger story here about life, but I will leave that for another day)…

This piece was first published on On Eating. Click here to read the full story.