Bugs to Brain: How Infectious Diseases May Precipitate Neurodegeneration with Dr. Jay Lombard

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The gut and brain are strongly interconnected. That’s why in Functional Medicine we always take the gut into account, along with the rest of the body, when trying to understand a brain disease. Unfortunately, conventional medicine likes to look at each part of the body separately, which may be why doctors have a hard time effectively treating neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and ALS. Knowing that the gut affects the brain and understanding the far-reaching role of the microbiome has led this week’s guest on The Doctor’s Farmacy to approach neurodegenerative conditions with a whole new perspective.

Dr. Jay Lombard is an internationally acclaimed neurologist, author, and keynote speaker specializing in neuroimmunological conditions and medical mysteries. Dr. Lombard integrates biological, psychological, and existential components in his holistic treatment approach. Dr. Lombard’s clinical experience revealed an interesting pattern: one patient with ALS also had small intestine bacterial overgrowth, then another who had ulcerative colitis, another had Crohn’s, and so on. He started seeing the connection between these bacterial imbalances and Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, and the link to neurological symptoms.

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy, there's very strong compelling evidence at this point that bacteria are the cause of neurodegenerative diseases.
0:09.4	Hey everybody, it's Dr. Mark Heimann. Now before we get started with this week's episode, I want to tell you about a company called Thrive Market. This made it so easy for me to stay healthy even with my crazy travel schedule.
0:24.3	In fact, I believe in them so much that I was one of their first investors over five years ago. So here's a little background.
0:31.7	I split my time between three different locations. Cleveland, the Berkshire's and New York. And I'm constantly traveling.
0:38.8	Anyone else who travels a lot knows that airport food and rest of food is horrible. It's junk. It's pretty scary out there actually.
0:47.2	I recently drove through Ohio and it was a food wasteland. It's easy to make healthy choices at home for sure.
0:54.4	But when you're hungry and you're on the road, it's pretty easy to get in a food emergency.
1:00.5	Those French fries and cinabuns, well, they just seem to call your name. I never let myself get in a food emergency.
1:08.5	I bring enough food with me for at least a whole day, sometimes more than a day. Whole foods, real foods, that I order online,
1:17.2	from Thrive Market. They sell all my favorite snacks, condiments, cleaning products, self-care products,
1:24.5	pretty much all the stuff in my kitchen or the rest of my house at discounted prices. Now they don't sell
1:30.1	fresh fruits and veggies, but pretty much everything else, including regenerative beef and sustainably harvest fish.
1:36.8	I just order a box full of all my favorite stuff, have it delivered to my house or in fact wherever I am.
1:42.1	And then I stock my pantry and my backpack with all my favorite stuff and I care it with me.
1:47.2	In all of its clean, whole food and it's between 25 and 50% off the retail price that you get in a
1:53.7	place like Whole Foods. They also carry one of my favorite snacks of all time, Hugh Kitchen Dark Chocolate.
2:00.8	Now this is probably the best chocolate in the world. They have all the flavors that you need and
2:05.8	then I love. And if you haven't tried this chocolate, it's pretty amazing. They use only the most
2:10.3	high quality organic ingredients. They use coconut sugar, which doesn't spike your blood sugar.
2:14.6	And they carry so many different flavors like hazelnut butter, dark chocolate,
2:19.2	almond butter, chocolate covered almonds or cashews. My wife's favorite are the
2:23.6	gooseberries covered in chocolate. They are addictive. So be careful. Hugh Kitchen Chocolate is
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