Hey there, this is Ari, and welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast.

In this episode, we are talking to my friend and renowned and leading functional medicine

practitioner, Dr. Dates-Kararasian, who is almost got a mythical status

in the functional medicine realm for how much work, how much pioneering work he's done in this

field, especially when it comes to brain health. And in this interview slash presentation, he is going to be presenting a lot of his absolute

best tips and strategies for improving your brain health. So welcome Dr. Karazian.

Yeah, as always, pleasure. Ari.

Yeah. So to start us off, let's talk about your big picture paradigm of the role of the brain in energy levels.

So there's lots of different mechanisms and paradigms that are out there.

You know, there's people talking about limbic system dysfunction.

There's people talking about childhood trauma.

There's the polyvagal theory with Stephen Porges and, you know, sympathetic versus parasympathetic. There's people talking about childhood trauma. There's the polyvagal theory with Stephen Porges and, you know,

sympathetic versus parasympathetic. There's people talking about, you know, more the psychological

angle of negative beliefs and thought patterns. There's glial excitotoxicities. There's toxins in

the glymphatic system. There's neurotransmitters. There's all these different layers of

mechanisms and things that we could talk about as far as the role of the brain in and the glymphatic system, there's neurotransmitters, there's all these different layers of mechanisms

and things that we could talk about as far as the role of the brain

in how it impacts energy levels and mood, which kind of overlap.

But what's your big picture kind of paradigm of the role in the brain,

the role of the brain in relationship to energy levels?

So all the things you talk about, like dysodonomia, neuroinflammation,

and synapticivity, and neurodegeneration, they're all part of it.

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