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Your Second Brain Is Your Gut
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<blockquote data-quote="Gene2memE" data-source="post: 73215938" data-attributes="member: 341130"><p>Existence of the enteric nervous system (ENS) is no more evidence for creation than the existence of any other structures of animals (or plants, or bacteria). </p><p></p><p>From a 2018 study entitled <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29024273" target="_blank">'<em>The first brain: Species comparisons and evolutionary implications for the enteric and central nervous systems</em>':</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">...Investigation of extant species suggests that the ENS developed in animals that preceded the division that led to cnidaria (exemplified by hydra) and bilateria, which includes the vertebrates. The CNS is deduced to be a bilaterian development, later than the divergence from cnidaria. Consistent with the ENS having developed independent of the CNS, reciprocal connections between ENS and CNS occur in mammals, and separate neurons of ENS and CNS origin converge on visceral organs and prevertebral ganglia. We conclude that an ENS arose before and independently of the CNS. Thus the ENS can be regarded as the first brain.</p><p></p><p>From this 1996 New York Times article: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/23/science/complex-and-hidden-brain-in-gut-makes-stomachaches-and-butterflies.html" target="_blank">Complex and Hidden Brain in Gut Makes Stomachaches and Butterflies </a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/23/science/complex-and-hidden-brain-in-gut-makes-stomachaches-and-butterflies.html" target="_blank"></a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">In <strong>evolutionary terms, it makes sense that the body has two brains</strong>, said Dr. David Wingate, a professor of gastrointestinal science at the University of London and a consultant at Royal London Hospital. "The first nervous systems were in tubular animals that stuck to rocks and waited for food to pass by," according to Dr. Wingate. The limbic system is often referred to as the "reptile brain." "As life evolved, animals needed a more complex brain for finding food and sex and so developed a central nervous system. But the gut's nervous system was too important to put inside the newborn head with long connections going down to the body," says Wingate. Offspring need to eat and digest food at birth. Therefore, nature seems to have preserved the enteric nervous system as an independent circuit inside higher animals. It is only loosely connected to the central nervous system and can mostly function alone, without instructions from topside. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gene2memE, post: 73215938, member: 341130"] Existence of the enteric nervous system (ENS) is no more evidence for creation than the existence of any other structures of animals (or plants, or bacteria). From a 2018 study entitled [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29024273']'[I]The first brain: Species comparisons and evolutionary implications for the enteric and central nervous systems[/I]':[/URL] [INDENT]...Investigation of extant species suggests that the ENS developed in animals that preceded the division that led to cnidaria (exemplified by hydra) and bilateria, which includes the vertebrates. The CNS is deduced to be a bilaterian development, later than the divergence from cnidaria. Consistent with the ENS having developed independent of the CNS, reciprocal connections between ENS and CNS occur in mammals, and separate neurons of ENS and CNS origin converge on visceral organs and prevertebral ganglia. We conclude that an ENS arose before and independently of the CNS. Thus the ENS can be regarded as the first brain.[/INDENT] From this 1996 New York Times article: [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/23/science/complex-and-hidden-brain-in-gut-makes-stomachaches-and-butterflies.html']Complex and Hidden Brain in Gut Makes Stomachaches and Butterflies [/URL] [INDENT]In [B]evolutionary terms, it makes sense that the body has two brains[/B], said Dr. David Wingate, a professor of gastrointestinal science at the University of London and a consultant at Royal London Hospital. "The first nervous systems were in tubular animals that stuck to rocks and waited for food to pass by," according to Dr. Wingate. The limbic system is often referred to as the "reptile brain." "As life evolved, animals needed a more complex brain for finding food and sex and so developed a central nervous system. But the gut's nervous system was too important to put inside the newborn head with long connections going down to the body," says Wingate. Offspring need to eat and digest food at birth. Therefore, nature seems to have preserved the enteric nervous system as an independent circuit inside higher animals. It is only loosely connected to the central nervous system and can mostly function alone, without instructions from topside. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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