5 Steps To Reduce Brain Inflammation Today

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens. While inflammation is a natural part of life that can serve a beneficial role, we start to see disease when inflammatory pathways are constantly activated. That’s why many brain symptoms—like brain fog, anxiety, memory loss, and more—can actually be caused by systemic inflammation. The foods we eat, the toxins we’re exposed to, our stress levels, and our genetics are just some of the many aspects that can impact the body—and the brain’s—propensity towards inflammation. In this episode, I discuss inflammation in the brain with Dr. Todd LePine. We dive into the many factors that can drive neuroinflammation, the range of conditions that are linked to brain inflammation, and how we work with patients to cool this inflammation. I also talk with Max Lugavere about how nutritional deficiencies affect the brain. Dr. Todd LePine graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, specializing in Integrative Functional Medicine, and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. He has been practicing Functional Medicine for over 15 years focusing on Optimal Aging, Bio-Detoxification, Gastrointestinal Health, Systemic Inflammation, Autoimmune disorders and the Neurobiology of mood and cognitive disorders. Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health, and science journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life. Max’s sophomore book is The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become Extraordinary, a lifestyle guide to living happily and healthily with proven, research-based lifestyle tactics, which we dig into more throughout this episode. This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Athletic Greens. Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. Check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account here. Athletic Greens is offering my listeners 10 free travel packs of AG1 when you make your first purchase here.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.5	Being in a place where there's a high concentration of air pollution might actually be creating this inflammatory insult to the brain.
0:09.9	So it's like, wow, the gut is connected to the brain.
0:12.3	Totally, totally connected to the brain.
0:14.2	Literally, there are viruses, yeast, bacteria in the brain that may be triggering this cascade of inflammation,
0:21.2	and then the question is, where does this come from?
0:24.6	Hey, everyone, it's Dr. Mark.
0:26.4	I know a lot of you out there are practitioners like me helping patients heal using real food and functional medicine as your framework for getting to the root cause.
0:35.7	What's critical to understanding what each individual person and body needs is testing, which is why I'm excited to tell you about Rupa Health.
0:44.2	Looking at hormones, organic acids, nutrient levels, inflammatory factors, gut bacteria, and so many other internal variables can help us find the most effective path to optimize health and reverse disease.
0:56.4	But up till now, that menu are usually ordering tests for one patient from multiple labs.
1:01.4	And I'm sure many of you can relate how time consuming this process was, and then it could all feel like a lot of work to keep track of.
1:08.0	Now there's Rupa Health, a place for functional medicine practitioners to access more than 2000, especially labs from over 20 labs like Dutch, Fiber, and America, Genoa, Great Plains, and more.
1:18.8	Rupa Health helped provide a significantly better patient experience and it's 90% faster, letting you simplify the entire process of getting the functional medicine lab tests you need and giving you more time to focus on patients.
1:31.9	This is really a much needed option to functional medicine space, and I'm so excited about it.
1:36.2	It means better service for you and your patients.
1:38.2	You can check it out and look at a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at Rupa Health.com. That's R-U-P-A-Health.com.
1:48.2	So many of my patients wait until they're sick to finally take care of their health.
1:52.3	I've even had doctors as patients, well many actually, who just wait for their problems to get worse and worse and receive a diagnosis of disease before taking any kind of action.
2:01.5	This is not the path to health.
2:03.9	We can live longer, healthier, happier lives if we just prevent imbalances in our bodies in the first place.
2:10.4	And nutrition is a key part of this.
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