Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential

podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks for joining me. For those of you who

love the science-based episodes, my fellow dorks, nerds, get excited.

This is a really critical, crucial topic for every single one of us and also for everybody

we love. I'm going to be talking about the three killers. The three states within our body that drive disease, pretty much

every disease that we know of is influenced by all three of these, but individually, of course, they are certainly pretty negative in and of

themselves.

But there are three things that are hallmarks of mental health issues, of a development

of cancer, obesity, heart disease, vascular disease, endocrine disorders, you name it, these three are at play.

I'll tell you what prompted this episode.

I shared on social media the other day a video clip of a prominent psychiatrist Harvard trained, her name is

Dr. Georgia Ead and she basically was saying that there are three features that almost all neuropsychiatric

disorders have in common along the spectrum so we're talking everything from

like mild anxiety depression all the way through to schizophrenia

across the board three things that they have in common

oxidative stress inflammation and insulin resistance.

Oxidative stress, inflammation, and insulin resistance.

And she was saying, you know, so what's the driver here?

And there's common drivers. She said the fields of

nutritional psychiatry and metabolic psychiatry

are looking at nutrition. They're looking at seed oils and sugar. So we could classify and say sugar processed

foods and seed oils as the drivers of all three of these things, oxidative stress

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