#228: How To Prepare Our Bodies and Minds for The NEXT Pandemic with Dr. Austin Perlmutter

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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How To Prepare Our Bodies and Minds for The NEXT Pandemic | This episode is brought to you by BLUblox. Chronic diseases are the top risk factors for death and disability today. They’re also among the top risk factors for having worse outcomes from COVID-19. This implies that much of our risk for worse outcomes from this virus is a reflection of the choices we’ve made in the years and months leading up to the pandemic. In many ways, the stage was set for this pandemic long ago, because it’s not just about the virus—it’s also about the host, and we were already compromised from an immune perspective before COVID-19 existed. This means that we have an opportunity to start making the necessary changes to our physiology, so that we’re better prepared for the next pandemic. On today’s episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Austin Perlmutter, a board-certified internal medicine physician and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from the University of Miami and completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland Oregon. His focus is on helping identify and resolve the biological basis for "stuckness" in the body and brain, especially around decision-making. He hosts the Get The STUCK OUT podcast and is a co-producer of the Alzheimer's - The Science of Prevention Docu-series. His writing is featured online on MedPage Today, Doximity, KevinMD, Medium, Psychology Today, MindBodyGreen, and DrPerlmutter.com. He is the author of a recent review paper on the interfaces between immune function, depression, and COVID-19. In this episode, we dive into: -How our epidemic of chronic diseases have predisposed us to worse outcomes from COVID-19 (4:34) -The importance of moving away from reactivity to solve our problems (12:03) -The intersection of COVID-19 and depression (16:02) -What’s underlying depression (20:27) -Dr. Perlmutter’s personal experience with anxiety and depression (25:52) -The connection between immune health and mental health (36:18) -How to support and enhance our immune system (45:50) -The importance of cutting out unnecessary stress (50:16) -The power of psilocybin and other psychedelic medicines for getting your brain unstuck (1:06:49) For more on Dr. Austin Perlmutter you can follow him on Instagram @austinperlmutter, on Facebook @austinperlmuttermd, on Twitter @austinperlmd, on YouTube @austinperlmuttermd, and through his website https://www.austinperlmutter.com/. Check out his podcast Get The STUCK Out at https://www.austinperlmutter.com/podcast. Also mentioned in this episode: -The Coronavirus Took Advantage of Our Weaknesses - https://elemental.medium.com/the-coronavirus-took-advantage-of-our-weaknesses-e7966ea48b75 -Immunological Interfaces: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Depression - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.657004/full#B40 Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter - https://dhrupurohit.com/newsletter. This episode is brought to you by BLUblox. Right now BLUblox is offering my listeners 20% off, just go to blublox.com/dhru and use code DHRU at checkout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We already had set the stage for a disaster before COVID even showed up.
0:04.8	We weren't healthy to start with and this just pushed us over the edge.
0:08.7	Our guest today is Dr. Austin Pearlmutter and we talk all things inflammation and how
0:13.6	it can wreak havoc on our brain and make us more likely to be depressed and even cloud our judgment.
0:20.3	Stay tuned.
0:21.6	This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Blueblocks.
0:24.7	So you know that I've done so many episodes on the topic of sleep because I'm obsessed with it.
0:29.2	Sleep is one of those things that you nail it, you get your sleep right, you optimize your sleep,
0:34.5	it changes everything. It changes everything. That's why the clinicians at our medical clinic
0:40.0	and a lot of my friends that have been on this podcast, sleep is one of the biggest areas that they
0:44.8	focus on. I'm always trying to come up with better solutions for sleep.
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0:53.0	Gadgets that you can include in that can make a difference. Now the thing about gadgets is that
0:57.3	many of the gadgets out there can be pretty inexpensive or inaccessible to a lot of people.
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1:31.1	of how light impacts health. Blueblocks glasses have improved my sleep and have handed a few out
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