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  The Second Brain (Paperback) By (author) Michael D. Gershon

  

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  Short Description for The Second BrainA work of scientific discovery, this text reveals how the intensive creation of nerve cells in our gut - our second brain - was forgotten and how its rediscovery is transforming modern medicine.
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  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Published: 29 March 2001
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Medicine | Physiology | Health | Popular Medicine & Health
  • ISBN 13: 9780060930721 ISBN 10: 0060930721
  • Sales rank: 16,830

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• Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This "second brain" can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains -- the one in our head and the one in our bowel -- must cooperate. If they do not, then there is chaos in the gut and misery in the head -- everything from "butterflies" to cramps, from diarrhea to constipation. Dr. Gershon's work has led to radical new understandings about a wide range of gastrointestinal problems including gastroenteritis, nervous stomach, and irritable bowel syndrome. "The Second Brain" represents a quantum leap in medical knowledge and is already benefiting patients whose symptoms were previously dismissed as neurotic or "it's all in your head."