Muscle-brain axis: 154 studies, 987 connections, and only 59 reliable.
The muscle-brain axis is the idea that working muscle communicates with the brain through a chemical language. A systematic review in Molecular Biology Reports compiled 154 studies and 987 molecular links between muscles, the brain, and the gut. Of these, the authors deemed only 59 to be reliable. This presents a good opportunity to discern what is science and what is still hypothesis. What is the muscle-brain axis...
