Posted by Hombre on December 10, 2010, at 5:42:57
In reply to Re: Upset Stomach, Poor Memory: part of Depression?, posted by Keith Talent on December 9, 2010, at 23:54:55
According to Chinese medical theory, depression usually involves liver stagnation. This could mean that the liver is weak and/or overloaded with stress hormones, and cannot deactivate them fast enough.
The common result of liver stagnation is that it attacks digestion, which is why you shouldn't eat when you're upset. I don't enough about the liver's role in digestion, or role in influencing the gall bladder, but there could very well be a connection.
Once your digestion goes bad, you won't be extracting as much nutrition and energy from your food. The brain is a hungry organ, and if your blood sugar levels are fluctuating (definitely a connection with liver, which creates glycogen from surplus glucose, and breaks it back down when needed, often triggered by stress hormones), your memory and learning will suffer.
Stress in general shunts blood away from the organs of digestion as a short term measure to prepare for action. Chronic stress will cause this to happen too often, and your digestion will surely suffer. Again, once digestion weakens, a whole host of other problems can start to develop. Good digestion and elimination are so key to good health and energy.
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