Dell Medical School

  • Start Trusting Your Gut: The Body’s Second Brain

    Written by: Adriana Souto Pereira Nuncio  Edited by: Esther Melamed This body organ has more neurons than the entire spinal cord and is not part of the central nervous system (CNS). What are we talking about? Yes, that is right, it is your gut, the body’s second brain! The concept of the gut-brain axis, a bidirectional…

  • HE WHO LAUGHS AT HIMSELF….

    Written By: Lillian C. McGregor …always has something to laugh about. That was in a fortune cookie I got about ten years ago. Little did I know I would be using that advice later. I was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) four years ago. Just going through all those tests was an ordeal, only…