Ever wondered where the term ‘gut feeling’ comes from? We sit down with Dr Lisa Harpur, clinical psychologist and founder of Gut Feelings...
Ever wondered where the term ‘gut feeling’ comes from? We sit down with Dr Lisa Harpur, clinical psychologist and founder of Gut Feelings Therapy, to find out more about our mind-body connection and how we can tune into it.
Dr Harpur’s expertise lies in understanding “how our minds and bodies are connected, the ways in which psychological or emotional phenomena can impact us physically, and how so-called ‘functional’ symptoms can come to be”. H “This is fine in the short term; it is designed to get us out of harm’s way and then switch off. However, if the ‘threat’ doesn’t subside, or if we have a worry-prone mind that keeps finding things to fret about, the stress response will keep going and result inanxiety or stress. That means chronic secretion of stress hormones, chronically elevated blood pressure and a weakened immune system.
You specialise in disorders of gut-brain interaction like IBS. Can these be impacted by our mental health? How so?
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