SUNDAY, Nov. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to heart rate and pulse.
Now, scientists say the gut may hold the key to understanding how this complex coordination happens in the brain’s blood vessels.
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