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Tuesday, 11 April, 2023

How your diet can impact your gut-brain connection and cause mental health issues like anxiety and depression – KABC-TV

For 20 years, 45-year-old Geeta Parmar-Patel endured gut-wrenching pain from a common irritable bowel disorder known as Crohn’s disease.

“You’re in the bathroom a lot. You’ve got all this inflammation because everything you’re eating is going through your gut,” she said. “Nutrients are not absorbed.”

Doctors say Parmar-Patel’s condition classically illustrates the gut-brain connection and say mental health issues such as anxiety and depression occur two to three times more often in these patients.

Read more at: 
https://abc7.com/crohns-disease-gut-brain-connection-mental-health-ibd/13111884/
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