984 - Top Treatments To Relieve Stress, Inflammation & Gut Health

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Stress, inflammation, gut and nervous system health are all interconnected. The good news is, treating one often helps to improve the others. Specifically, if you're experiencing any type of stressor, it would be beneficial to improve your vagus nerve and gut health. In this episode, I'll walk through the top treatments that work for stopping high stress and creating long term balanced mental health.

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:20 Stressors

00:51 Amygdala, Immune, & Gut Health

05:44 Importance of the vagus nerve

10:40 Beneficial supplements

16:51 Vagus nerve tools

20:47 Reduced inflammation & autoimmunity

25:46 Reflux & constipation benefits

26:17 Lifestyle & exercise benefits

30:35 Meditation & breathwork

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0:00.0	things that improve the health of the gut have an attenuating impact on the activation of the center in the brain known as the limbic system.
0:09.8	This leads to less perceived stress, less anxiety, less depression, healthier cortisol levels, and also improvements in cognition and memory.
0:33.9	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:39.4	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player. For weekly updates, visit Dr.ruciot.com. Regarding the connection
0:47.3	between your gut and the stress response. Now the stress response is kind of broad. This could
0:52.9	mean someone's anxious, depressed,
0:55.3	has poor memory, has poor sleep, just to name a few. Or they may just notice that they're intolerant
1:00.3	to stress, right? They're trucking along okay, but they notice any even seemingly small amount of
1:07.9	stress can tip them over into being depressed, being anxious, sleeping poorly.
1:13.6	We're honing in an important area of the brain known as the limbic system.
1:20.6	This region contains the hippocampus, the thalamus, the hypothalamus, and the amygdala.
1:35.9	And specifically, it seems to be this amygdala that is one of the more key areas for us to focus on.
1:41.8	It's an almond-shaped gland or region in the medial temporal lobe.
1:47.0	And the amygdala governs a few different functions. Emotional processing is one of the most key, but also memory.
1:53.0	And if you think about this through a evolutionary lens,
1:58.0	the fact that we spent over a million years as hunter-gatherers, over
2:02.4	600 generations of people evolved under the pressures of hunter-gatherer living.
2:09.0	Well, why is that relevant?
2:10.2	Because if you watched your friend eat these, let's say, berries and then throw up for four
2:15.3	hours and die, it would be very important to your survival
2:19.0	that that berry was driven deep into your memory. And it's in part the amygdala that governs this
2:27.1	function. Now, what seems to be happening modern day is for a variety of reasons, the amygdala is overactive this may lead to poor memory
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