Hey everyone, welcome to the root cause medicine podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones.

And on this podcast, we go in depth with leading experts to understand and improve your health and well-being.

Today, I'm talking with Dr. J. Faber all about the workings of your brain, given his immense experience at the world-renowned Amen

clinics. His experience with brain spec scans as it relates to mental health, addiction,

and different types of ADD was fascinating. Dr. Faber is double board certified in child, adolescent,

and adult psychiatry. In addition, he is board certified in anti-aging and regenerative medicine

and got his master's in integrative medicine from George Washington University.

It was an absolute pleasure talking with him today as brain health and brain function

are so critically important to everything you do in life.

Here's a clip from today's conversation.

Drug use, alcohol use. We get a lot of stress. I saw somebody yesterday, a really, really successful CEO who he said, yeah, four years ago, I got really, really stressed out with work. And I got this

scleroderma, but it was like linear.

It went like there's a line of like, he said inflammation that went down the right frontal side of his brain.

And since then, he's had problems focusing, remembering as well. He's just not on his A game.

And it was the wildest thing. We looked at a scan and he had a line of decreased profusion

on his right frontal lobe, right where this was. And it was like, this is what stress does because

when you have stress, your immune system does what? High cortisol, white blood cells don't work as well.

And then all of a sudden, we're much more susceptible to having inflammatory conditions happen to us.

But yeah, so we see a lot of different conditions

and try to put what might be happening to the brain,

and I think over time more what's happening to your body too.

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