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Irelands@ome

Strange lands await us, brave men going forth long ships set your course before the wild gales.

Chase the new world, explorers of the north, heroes make history in Vinland vales.

Only the saga scribes know where we roam, at long last Valhalla’s Song calls us home.

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Strange lands await us, brave men going forth long ships set your course before the wild gales.

Chase the new world, explorers of the north, heroes make history in Vinland vales.

Only the saga scribes know where we roam, at long last Valhalla’s Song calls us home.

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Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain

When it comes to your moods, decisions and behaviour, the brain in your head is not the only one doing the thinking

IT’S been a tough morning. You were late for work, missed a crucial meeting and now your boss is mad at you. Come lunchtime you walk straight past the salad bar and head for the stodge. You can’t help yourself - at times of stress the brain encourages us to seek out comfort foods. That much is well known. What you probably don’t know, though, is that the real culprit may not be the brain in your skull but your other brain.

Yes, that’s right, your other brain. Your body contains a separate nervous system that is so complex it has been dubbed the second brain. It comprises an estimated 500 million neurons - about five times as many as in the brain of a rat - and is around 9 metres long, stretching from your oesophagus to your anus. It is this brain that could be responsible for your craving under stress for crisps, chocolate and cookies.

Embedded in the wall of the gut, the enteric nervous system (ENS) has long been known to control digestion. Now it seems it also plays an important role in our physical and mental well-being. It can work both independently of and in conjunction with the brain in your head and, although you are not conscious of your gut “thinking”, the ENS helps you sense environmental threats, and then influences your response. “A lot of the information that the gut sends to the brain affects well-being, and doesn’t even come to consciousness,” says Michael Gershon at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York.

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I think I need some tea. Got a teabag just for this occasion. TIME TO CHAI

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Honey on mah dick

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