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Guardian.UK: Gut reaction - book celebrating digestive tract becomes German bestseller.

“… Enders argues that even scientists like her – a 24-year-old doctoral student at Frankfurt’s Goethe University – have only in recent years started to explore the possibility that the health of our bowels could have a more direct influence on our mental wellbeing, our motivation, memory and sense of morality than our DNA.”

Makes me think of a passage from Giono (which also has lessons for bloggers/social mavens): “… it’s essential to be crazy, my child. Look around you at the ever-increasing number of people who take themselves seriously. Apart from making themselves hopelessly absurd to minds like mine, they condemn themselves to a dangerously constipated life. It’s exactly as if, at one and the same time, they stuffed themselves with tripe, which is a laxative, and with Japanese medlars, which are binding. They swell, swell, then they burst, and that makes a bad smell for everybody.”

05/08/14 • 12:43 PM • Books • Health • Science • No Comments

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