When Stress Breaks Down Your Gut — And Your Mood Pays the Price

Most of us have felt it: a stressful week that brings on a stomachache, a bout of anxiety that makes eating feel impossible, or a prolonged, difficult period that somehow leaves us both emotionally drained and digestively wrecked. We tend to dismiss these as coincidences—stress affects the mind, and digestion is a gut problem. However, emerging science indicates these aren't parallel stories. They are the same story, told from two ends of the same biological highway.