Touch our emotions

Through the food we obtain necessary nutrients a good cerebral functioning. The bacteria contained some foods like in the yogurt they help brain to develop better and in how the emotions .

 

Researchers of the University of California in Los Angeles, United States, confirm that the women healthy consume regularly bacteria charities or probiotics , through yogurt , they showed the function altered brain , both in a resting state and when responding to a emotion .

 

Touch our emotions

Kirsten Tillisch , Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA and author of the study, explains that the disturbance of the brain chemistry it is explained to the function of vagus nerve , which connects the brain with the stomach .

 

The bacteria stimulate the vagus nerve which, in turn, activate the production of various neurotransmitters that determine our thoughts Y feelings ", Clarifies the professor at UCLA .

Although it has already been proven that probiotics help to regular the process digestive and cravings for food, now it is known that they also alter the brain chemistry and the way we respond to the environment. This explains why the stress and other emotions favor the gastrointestinal diseases .

Researchers now try to identify certain chemical substances produced by the bacteria of the intestine that can trigger the signals to brain , as well as the Benefits potentials of certain probiotics in yogurts in problems like anxiety .

They also plan to find out if people with symptoms gastrointestinal , like abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other stomach problems improve their symptoms that correlate with the changes in the response cerebral . Remember that they are the probiotics are those that can help stimulate various functions of your brain .


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