the science of gut feelings

Is your stomach smarter than your brain? Most people would say nope. That’s why we eat suspicious kebabs and end up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position. But sometimes we get a certain feeling, deep down in our lower intestine. Call it a hunch. An intuition. A weird premonition that something big is about to happen. And it turns out that those feelings, what we call ‘gut instinct’, are actually backed by some pretty hardcore neuroscience. In certain situations (not involving undercooked kebabs) our stomachs definitely know best.

To understand how gut feelings work, you first need to understand the human