Your DNA gets damaged more often than most people realize.
Normal metabolism, environmental exposures and even copying DNA during cell division can create damage or errors.
But your cells have DNA repair mechanisms that constantly detect and correct many of these problems.
🧬 Damage happens
🔍 Cells detect it
🛠️ Repair systems respond
Your genetic material isn’t sitting there unprotected.
Cellular maintenance is happening every day.
Your gut contains an enormous network of nerve cells called the enteric nervous system.
It helps coordinate things like:
🍽️ Movement through the digestive tract
🧪 Digestive secretions
🩸 Local blood flow
It’s sometimes nicknamed the “second brain.”
Your brain and gut communicate…
but your digestive tract also has extensive local control of its own.