The Gut-Brain Connection The Enteric Nervous System (The Brain of the Gut) Scientists in the relatively new field of neurogastroenterology are studying what a British doctor described in 1921 and labeled as the enteric nervous system (sometimes called the intrinsic nervous system). The terms second brain or brain of…
Getting to Know Your Essential Oils – Constituents A single essential oil—any essential oil from any plant species—typically contains anywhere from 100 to 400 different chemical compounds. (Recently chemists have been placing the upper range at 800 different chemical compounds!) There are certain compounds common to essential oils…
Blood Pressure There are two numbers that measure blood pressure. The systolic represents the pressure against your arteries when your heart is pumping. The diastolic represents the brief resting period between pumps, as the heart fills back up with blood. The average range is when the systolic pressure is between…