How does the brain contribute to maintaining physical health?
Way too broad and deep of a subject as there have been PhD papers written and subjects closely resembling this topic. In general, what you have are constant lines of communication that are feeding the brain the same way that your cars computer is being fed information. Take your nutritional intake, your body is only going to know to modes – feast or famine. The signals received by your brain are 1) we have nutrient (a), or 2) we don’t have nutrient (a). In the instance that you do have nutrient (a), the body will freely use it as it is freely prescribed. In the instance that you do not have nutrient (a), your brain prescribes what you can consider survival mode for this and therefore will begin to store this nutrient and slow your metabolism to ensure that it can conserve. Your brain will also pull into play the alternative mechanisms available to adjust to the lack of nutrient (a). As an example, take proteins. Your body requires protein ingestion, and from that ingestion, the extract
