Brain Wash – Inflammation Leads to Unhealthy Habits, Low Motivation & Poor Decision Making

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If you are looking for more motivation to make healthy changes and find themselves struggling with compliance, Brain Wash by Dr. Perlmutter is a fantastic resource. In this episode, Dr. Perlmutter discusses how modern day unhealthy choices will create this over-reliance of the amygdala in the brain at the expense of the prefrontal cortex - the amygdala is more emotional based and the prefrontal cortex is more logic or reasoning based. For those of us who are stuck in this cycle of making bad choices, going to bed too late, drinking too much, eating unhealthy food, not exercising, there may be this unhealthy habit related stimulus in which inflammation may be a main driver that causes this skewing of what parts of the brain are activated. The book helps one better understand what the source of some of these bad habits are and what one can do to change them. https://drruscio.com/?p=56009

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and
0:13.8	functional medicine.
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0:23.2	DRR-R-U-S-C-I-O.com. The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended
0:30.9	to diagnose or treat any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking
0:36.2	with your doctor. Now let's head to the show.
0:39.8	Hi, everyone.
0:40.9	Today's episode is with Dr. David Perlmutter, and we are discussing his new book, Brainwash.
0:47.7	There's a few concepts in this book that I think could really help any one of us who's either a healthcare provider or any type of clinician or
0:56.9	health coach or even someone themselves who is trying to figure out how to be more motivated to make
1:03.8	healthy changes. And he discusses this fascinating neuro-anatomy neurobiology about how modern day unhealthy choices will create this over-reliance of
1:18.0	the amygdala in the brain at the expense of the prefrontal cortex. So the amygdala is more
1:23.3	emotional based and the prefrontal cortex is more logic or reasoning based. And what the research
1:30.8	he discusses in his book Brainwash kind of outlines is that for those of us who are stuck in
1:36.8	this cycle of making bad choices, going to bed too late, drinking too much, eating unhealthy food,
1:42.3	not exercising, there may be this unhealthy habit-related stimulus
1:48.5	in which inflammation may be a main driver that causes this skewing of what parts of the brain
1:55.7	are activated and this can lock someone in this cycle of poor decision making.
2:02.1	So I think a very timely book, especially if you've ever struggled with compliance with either those who you work with or with those who you love or even yourself, this I think is a read that's empowering and motivational because it helps one better understand
2:18.9	what the source of some of these bad habits are and what one can do to change them.
2:27.1	So I hope you will stick around and listen to the conversation with Dr. David Pertlmutter on his new book, Brainwash.
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