Health

Mon Jul 17

The brain and the gut talk to each other: how fixing one could help the other

Written by Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, Deakin University

People with chronic bowel conditions may need to use the toilet 20 to 30 times a day.daveynin/Flickr, CC BY

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