Dr. Tabatha Barber explains why the gut is your longevity organ. It controls the gut-brain pathway that sends inflammation throughout your body, and chronic stress ages your entire system, not just individual organs.
—And I literally cringe thinking that we didn't think that was a big deal 20 years ago, but now we know so much more, but how important that communication pathway between the gut and the brain is in terms of transference of information, transference of inflammation, depending on what's going on. So I think for a lot of individuals, they are humbled to know that our body is all interconnected and the gut really is at the forefront. In fact, I've started to go out on a limb and saying that It is the key longevity organ that you might never have heard of because in so many ways, it is at the forefront of communication pathways, inflammation pathways with every other organ system in the body. And I'm sure we'll probably talk about the cumulative net effect of chronic stress and how that ages us, not just our ovaries, but ages our entire body.
