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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Datis Kharrazian, an award-winning researcher, academic professor, and functional medicine provider with extensive clinical experience treating chronic fatigue syndrome.
Today, we focus on how the brain contributes to chronic fatigue. Dr. Kharrazian provides a really pragmatic viewpoint that both respects and, I believe, supersedes many of the other theories I’ve heard throughout the years.
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0:00.0 | We're talking about the effects of elevated cortisol on the brain. |
0:03.0 | And cortisol either could be exogenous because someone's taking cortisone or someone has |
0:07.2 | just high production of cortisol. |
0:09.6 | But cortisol itself can thin the blood-brain barrier. |
0:12.3 | They can break down the gut barrier. |
0:13.6 | That's one key thing. |
0:15.2 | Extensive cortisol use and high cortisol levels can atrophy the brain. |
0:18.6 | Hey there everyone. |
0:19.6 | Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint Podcast. |
0:21.7 | I'm your host, Ari Witten, and today I have with me a very special guest, who is an award-winning |
0:28.4 | researcher, academic professor, and functional medicine health care provider, Dr. Dates-Karazian. |
0:36.0 | A little bit of background on him, He specializes in developing evidence-based |
0:39.8 | models to treat autoimmune, neurological, and unidentified chronic diseases with non-pharmaceutical |
0:45.8 | applications such as diet, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine. His academic and clinical research |
0:52.1 | has been featured in numerous documentaries, and his clinical |
0:55.6 | models of functional medicine are used by several academic institutions and thousands of |
1:01.1 | healthcare providers throughout the world. |
1:03.6 | Dr. Karazian has received appointments as an associate clinical professor at Loma Linda University |
1:09.3 | School of Medicine, a research fellow at Harvard |
1:12.0 | Medical School, and a research fellow at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General |
1:17.6 | Hospital. And this is just a very, very summarized version of a very long list of impressive |
1:22.6 | accomplishments. So thank you so much, Dr. Krazian, for joining me. Such a pleasure to have you on. |
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