1/3 I've not really done much musically recently, I've had a lot of life stuff going on, and it's significantly delayed progress. In the last 18 months I've had the deaths of my father and stepmother to cope with, as well as the illness and death of our two house rabbits from complications caused by #megacolon. We're in the process of buying a new apartment too, so all of this is causing some delays with my #music projects.

#HouseRabbits #Death #MusicProjects

🔵 Cos'è un megacolon tossico? Come riconoscerlo? Perché può diventare pericoloso e mortale?

👉 Segui questo link: https://medicinaonline.co/2018/05/03/megacolon-tossico-cause-sintomi-trattamento-anatomia-patologica/

✅ #megacolon #colon #intestino #colite #rettocolite #EmilioAlessioLoiacono #MedicinaOnLine

🔵 Megacolon: cos'è e come si cura?

👉 Leggi l’articolo: https://medicinaonline.co/2018/10/16/megacolon-cause-diagnosi-disturbi-cure-alimentazione-dieta/

✅ #megacolon #colon #intestino #EmilioAlessioLoiacono #MedicinaOnLine

🔸 The enteric nervous system is one that's shared throughout the vertebrates. And it lines the digestive track — from the esophagus through the stomach, through the small intestine, And then through the large intestine and down to the anus.

🔸 And throughout that length, there are intrinsic neurons that sit in the lining in the gastrointestinal tract. And these neurons form the enteric nervous system. And there are about 100 million.

🔸 These intrinsic neurons form two different plexuses.

🔸 One of the plexuses, called 'peristalsis', is responsible for pushing the contents of the digestive tract through the pathway from mouth to anus. The other plexuses are responsible for secreting stuff, such as making our feces either more or less watery.

🔸 The way that this enteric nervous system works is that it's very automatic. This is the most automatic of the autonomic nervous system. We're not doing anything conscious to push the food through, from esophagus to anus. That's all taken care of by the enteric nervous system (ENS).

🔸 As you may imagine, if you don't have an enteric nervous system, then food doesn't get pushed through. And that actually happens in a disease called Hirschsprung's disease.

🔸 #HirschsprungsDisease is identified at birth. So the newborn babies have Hirschsprung's because a section of the GI tract is aganglionic — it has no neurons.
And therefore, it's just contracted. And everything can push down, but it can't push through that contraction. This has to be fixed surgically. Another name for Hirschprung's is #megacolon. They got in this enlarged colon, because nothing's going through.

🔸 While the ENS is completely able to do all of this peristalsis stuff on its own, it does interact with the central nervous system. There is information going to the central nervous system — a lot of information. And there's some information coming from the CNS to the ENS. This is all coming to it through the parasympathetics and the sympathetics.

🔸 The information coming out of the enteric nervous system is about ten times more than the information that's going to the enteric nervous system. The information that comes from the digestive tract is telling us about whether we feel full, whether we just ate a large meal and our abdomen is distended, whether we feel gassy, whether we feel hungry, whether we feel good. It, it is telling us about the state of our GI tract.

🔸 The information going to the to the enteric nervous system is a way by which our mood can now influence our GI functioning.
And this is the way that if you get very nervous or excited, you may notice a difference in your bowel movements. [ so relatable for me! ]

🔸 There's an interaction between the way our digestive tract feels and the way we feel emotionally. Not surprisingly many psychiatric diseases are associated with certain GI issues as well.