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Your Gut-Brain Connection Might Explain your Anxiety… and Much More

Your Gut-Brain Connection Might Explain your Anxiety… and Much More, by Sweta Vikram. Photograph of a woman with her hand on her belly by Ava Sol
Photograph by Ava Sol

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

There’s a strong, well evolved, bond between what we think and how we feel… choose your thoughts wisely.

A little while after the pandemic hit, my psychotherapist friends got busier than ever. Their client roster has been full these past 16 months. Anxiety and depression have been a common diagnosis amongst many of their clients. Similarly, studies tell us that living through this pandemic is continuing to do a hurt our bodies as well. Stress is

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