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Benergy: A new app to track gut health with smart data

  • Spain
  • 5 min read
  • Oct 23, 2019
  • By Amalia González

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The Benergy app allows results to be shared with doctors to facilitate diagnosis and includes swap tests

Recent studies and reports have shown the importance of gut health not only as essential to the immune system and mental health, but also as an independent and interconnected "second brain." Indeed, its 100m enteroendocrine cells are similar to neuron synapses. They not only send hormonal messages to the central nervous system, but are directly connected to the brain through the vagus nerve. 
Seeking to improve general health and mental wellbeing through better understanding of the gut, Barcelona-based Indiehealth created Benergy, a free Spanish-language app for stool and bow...

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