How the Gut Affects Our Brain Performance

Nicole Hilbig
7 min readJul 27, 2021

The gut has more to say than you think.

A 3d illustration of a plug with brain and intestine format, gut-brain axis, vagus nerve
The intestine is known to be the second brain.

Fresh air, water, nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress are the big influencing factors that essentially influence our memory? Thought wrong.

Because, according to recent scientific findings, there is an even more significant influencing factor on our brain that previously led a miserable shadowy existence in research: our

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Nicole Hilbig

I love learning and writing about the changes in our digital era. My topics are future, work, productivity, writing, education & personal stories.