{"id":58651,"date":"2025-03-04T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=58651"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:41:31","slug":"a-tale-of-two-brains-how-your-second-brain-is-key-to-understanding-many-chronic-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58651","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two brains: how your second brain is key to understanding many chronic illnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Inflammed_Gut.jpg\" alt=\"Inflammed Gut\" width=\"796\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Inflammed_Gut.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Inflammed_Gut-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Inflammed_Gut-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the author shares some valid data and makes good recommendations, I believe he misunderstands the concept of intuition. (Intuitive: using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.)<\/p>\n<p>A being is intuitive, a piece of matter, such as a body part, is not. There are biochemical signals that produce a variety of reactions in the gut. No little man down there &#8220;feeling&#8221; or being intuitive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/a-tale-of-two-brains-how-your-second-brain-is-key-to-understanding-many-chronic-illnesses\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/food-cooking\/a-tale-of-two-brains-how-your-second-brain-is-key-to-understanding-many-chronic-illnesses\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the author shares some valid data and makes good recommendations, I believe he misunderstands the concept of intuition. (Intuitive: using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.) A being is intuitive, a piece of matter, such as a body part, is not. There are biochemical signals that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=58651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A tale of two brains: how your second brain is key to understanding many chronic illnesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58653,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58651\/revisions\/58653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}