483: Happy Gut, Happy Brain with Jimmy St. Louis
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Did you receive a CRP (C-reactive protein) test during your last blood test? Since recent research correlates systemic inflammation with dozens of diseases and illnesses, cooling this internal flame has become a major focus in preventative medicine.
On this week's podcast, we'll speak about the low-grade, chronic inflammation that many of us struggle with unknowingly due to gut dysbiosis. In an ideal world, we eat a meal, digest and absorb its nutrients. In the real world, many of us eat foods that create a fight response internally as your body treats the offending foods like an invasive threat.
Listen & Learn
- How your gut bacteria form a "soil" like environment for digestion
- Why modern foods and lifestyles leave many of us imbalanced
- How to find motivation later in life to make changes
- The power and speed of diet and lifestyle changes
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Jimmy is the founder of the Cognitive Health Institute which focuses on gut health to reduce
inflammation, thus lowering the likelihood, as well as the symptoms of autoimmune diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Jimmy played football professionally for the NFL's Tennessee Titans as a tight end and most recently was a member of the 2016 United States Rowing Team. His accomplishments include four national medals as well as a third-place finish in the 2016 Olympic trials.
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| 0:00.0 | Inflammation has been a really buzz topic in popular health for the past three or four years, |
| 0:09.3 | and for good reason. When you look at really any disease or chronic illness, there's very often |
| 0:15.5 | an inflammation component, not always, but very often inflammation. Systemic inflammation is |
| 0:21.3 | correlated with things like neurodegenerative illnesses, cancers, even heart conditions, |
| 0:28.8 | and chronic low grade conditions like hypertension and things like this, very often are correlated |
| 0:33.1 | with inflammation. There's a lot of confusion around what inflammation is, and so many people think |
| 0:38.1 | that if you eat gluten, like wheat protein, you get inflamed, gut, and your whole body is inflamed. |
| 0:44.4 | For some people, that is true. For many people, that inflammation stays localized in their gut. |
| 0:48.7 | Other people think if they have acne, they have skin inflammation, and that's a red flag that |
| 0:54.0 | their whole body is inflamed. It might be, but not necessarily. Systemic inflammation is usually |
| 0:59.7 | measured by a blood marker called C-reactive protein CRP. You can get a C-reactive protein test |
| 1:07.1 | from any lab, or your doctor if you just go to your GP and just say, hey, I want to check out my |
| 1:12.0 | inflammation markers. What a lot of people find is that their inflammation levels are relatively high, |
| 1:16.4 | which essentially means that your body is in kind of a fight-off enemies state all the time. |
| 1:24.1 | In the same way that our levels of stress tend to be high, our levels of inflammation, systemic |
| 1:29.1 | inflammation tend to be pretty high as well, and there are a number of different factors that |
| 1:33.2 | contribute to that. Our lifestyle stress definitely does. Our diet definitely plays a huge role. |
| 1:38.7 | Environmental toxins can play a role. There's a number of different things that can play a role. |
| 1:43.2 | On this week's podcast, we'll be chatting about gut health and the gut role in mitigating, |
| 1:49.1 | managing inflammation specifically. I do want to mention that gut health is very, very new. If we look |
| 1:55.8 | at the human genome, that project is also relatively new. The human microbiome, the three-ish pounds |
| 2:03.4 | of bugs living inside your body and on your skin as well. We really don't know how all of this stuff |
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