With Thanksgiving upon us once again, I thought it timely to mention a health topic often overlooked or misunderstood by many: Gut health. I been saying diet is probably one of the biggest factors in alot of the chronic degenerative stuff we’re dealing with. The endocannabanoid system similarly goes underrepresented in healthcare these days, with doctors maybe not yet realizing they have only scratched the surface.
Glia, once thought to be mere glue that fills the space between neurons, were largely ignored in the brain for much of the 20th century. Clearly, neurons were the cells that made things happen: Through electrical and chemical signaling, they materialize our thoughts, feelings and actions. But in the last few decades, glia have shed their identity as passive servants. Neuroscientists have increasingly discovered that glia play physiological roles in the brain and nervous system that once seemed reserved for neurons.
