AUTOIMMUNITY: Signs, Symptoms & Triggers – A Top 10 Episode with Dr. Thomas O’Bryan
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Your Upgraded Summer!
This new series revisits the Top 10 Bulletproof Radio episodes of all time. The topics cover essentials like nutrition, energy, hormones, sleep and autophagy, as well as gut, brain, autoimmune and women's health.
You'll get the main points in a shortened version so you can get the good stuff and get on with your summer plans. And if you want to listen to more, tune in to the original episode.
Dr. Thomas O’Bryan takes the No. 7 spot with: The Autoimmune Fix – Dr. Thomas O’Bryan – #478
In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dr. Thomas O’Bryan says seven out of every 10 patients he treats have autoimmune issues. He’s a physician internationally renowned for his work with autoimmune diseases and inflammation, and the nutrition and lifestyle choices that can help.
With a healthy immune system, your antibodies have the power to get rid of old and damaged cells and make room for new cells to grow and develop. But with any kind of autoimmunity issue, your antibodies end up killing off more cells than you make.
Autoimmunity can be triggered for a long time before you feel the impacts. It tends to hit your body at some point, so the sooner you can find a way to prevent it, the better.
Dr. O’Bryan talks about the causes, the signs and what you can do about it, to prevent things like leaky gut and encourage things like healthy enzymes. He says it’s most often about what you eat, what’s going up your nostrils and what’s happening inside your gut.
More from Dr. Thomas O’Bryan:
- “This topic of autoimmunity really becomes a primary concern for all of us, but we've never looked at it that way. So once we understand this, that this is prevalent in almost all of us, that it's an autoimmune mechanism, meaning your immune system attacking your own tissue, whether it's your blood vessels, or components in your blood vessels, the fatty membranes of the blood vessels, or it's your brain, or your joints, or whatever it is, when your immune system is attacking your own tissue, that goes on for years. It's called the spectrum of autoimmunity.”
- “Celiac disease is when your gut's being chewed up from a sensitivity to wheat. The third category is non celiac wheat sensitivity, and that's the big kahuna picture. Non-celiac wheat sensitivity can manifest as brain dysfunction, autoimmune brain disease, skin disease, joint disease. There's no tissue in the body that might notbe affected by a sensitivity to wheat. Look at the immune system to see. Is my immune system telling me I've got a problem with this food? Because body language never lies. If your immune system is activated to protect you against a particular food, stop eating that food.”
- “If you treat your body like a Lamborghini, it's going to run like a Lamborghini. If you treat your body like a Rambler and expect it to run like a Lamborghini, you're going to be in trouble.”
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| 0:00.0 | This summer, we get to set down our fear and anxiety and open up to travel and gathering and |
| 0:05.3 | hugging again. So I know that you and I are going to be spending time outside and getting back to |
| 0:10.0 | all the activities that make us better versions of ourselves. That's why I've put together a new |
| 0:15.5 | podcast series for you called Your Upgraded Summer. These are top 10 all-time bulletproof radio |
| 0:21.8 | episodes edited for you in a new way to be only 30 minutes so they work for you when you're |
| 0:27.3 | spending your time outside. You're going to learn how to improve your nutrition, your sleep, |
| 0:30.9 | your brain, your hormones, your immune system, and your energy. And these are the things that people |
| 0:36.0 | most wanted to hear, the most popular topics. Listen to one, listen to handful, listen to all 10 |
| 0:41.8 | but know that you'll be joining millions of people who enjoyed this content the most and ask for more. |
| 0:47.5 | Bulletproof Radio, a state of high performance. You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 1:03.9 | Today's guest is Dr. Tom O'Brien. And he's an internationally recognized speaker about wheat, |
| 1:12.0 | its impact on health, and autoimmune disease in general. He practices functional medicine and looks |
| 1:17.6 | at these chronic diseases and metabolic disorders. And this is relevant to you because there are a |
| 1:22.8 | huge number of us listening right now who have a little bit of chronic disease or metabolic disorder, |
| 1:28.4 | but you don't feel it until it really really hits you years later. There's a huge number of people |
| 1:36.3 | walking around today going, I feel really good. I'm doing well, but they've got the markers |
| 1:40.3 | that like a little fire is smoldering. And if you want to remain high performing long into your old |
| 1:46.4 | age or you want to maybe join me on my quest to live to at least 180 years old, you need to stop |
| 1:50.8 | the stuff before it becomes, oh look, I've got an extra 20 pounds in my liver as fatty and my life sucks. |
| 1:56.7 | So I invited Tom on the show today to talk about what's going on in this thing. Tom, welcome to the show. |
| 2:04.0 | Oh, thanks, Dave. Thanks. It's a pleasure to be with you. What made you get into looking at the body |
| 2:08.8 | as a system instead of what a lot of medical practitioners do, which is sort of, you know, well, |
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