462. The Gut-Brain Connection: How Stress, Trauma, and Shame Impact our Physiology with Dr. Will Cole
Commune with Jeff Krasno
Commune Media
4.6 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we cover:
0:04:50 – The Gut + The Nervous System
0:07:20 – The Vagus Nerve
0:11:14 – Gut-Brain-Axis
0:13:20 – Hormones
0:17:44 – Mood
0:21:26 – Bacteria
0:24:07 – Intestinal Permeability
0:26:21 – Maintaining Good Gut Flora
0:35:51 – Antibiotics
0:37:19 – How to Upregulate Gut Function
0:41:44 – Psychology and Physiology
0:43:01 – Metaphysical Meals
0:46:02 – Shame
0:47:20 – Fight or Flight
0:51:18 – Shameflammation
0:55:23 – Loneliness
0:59:48 – Epigenetics
1:05:47 – Gut Feelings Protocol
1:15:35 – Recipes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today on the show, I welcome back Dr. Will Cole. |
| 0:16.0 | Will has been named one of the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in the nation and runs one of the |
| 0:23.0 | first functional medicine telehealth centers in the world. He specializes in excavating |
| 0:28.8 | the underlying root causes of chronic disease and customizing a personalized precision medicine |
| 0:37.2 | approach for conditions including thyroid issues, |
| 0:41.3 | autoimmune diseases, hormonal imbalances, and digestive and mental disorders. In today's interview, |
| 0:48.4 | we discuss the fascinating connection between the gut and the brain. Now, when we were fetuses, just growing in our mother's |
| 0:57.3 | womb, the brain and the gut formed from the same exact tissue, linking them for the rest of |
| 1:03.2 | our lives through what is known as the gut brain axis. Now, you may have heard the term |
| 1:09.6 | vagal tone being thrown about the zeitgeist. Well, it refers to the |
| 1:14.3 | activity of the vagus nerve or wandering nerve. This is the largest cranial nerve in the body. |
| 1:21.5 | And this nerve serves as a bidirectional highway for communication between the gut and the brain. |
| 1:28.3 | So improving vagal tone has far-reaching implications on overarching health, |
| 1:33.3 | including enhancing mood, upregulating immune system and digestion and energy levels. |
| 1:39.3 | So in our conversation, we dive into the connection between the physiological and the psychological, which is the topic |
| 1:46.2 | of Will's latest book, gut feelings, healingly shame-fueled relationship between what you eat |
| 1:52.6 | and how you feel. Clinical studies show us that chronic stress, unresolved trauma, shame, |
| 2:00.3 | and environmental toxicity can impact the body's |
| 2:03.5 | underlying biochemistry, creating chronic inflammatory problems and metabolic and brain health |
| 2:11.0 | issues. Now, the fight or flight response is a natural adaptive biological feature, but |
| 2:17.1 | modernity has created an evolutionary mismatch. |
| 2:21.4 | And when we're exposed to chronic stress, the HPA axis, that's the hypothalamic pituitary |
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