Dr. Michael Ruscio: Healing The Second Brain
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
If you want to have a healthy brain, you have to have a healthy gut. Someone who has depression and brain fog can feel better in just a couple of months by understanding the enteric nervous system and healing their gut. - Dr. Michael Ruscio
How does the gut connect, communicate, and work with the brain through nerve signals and stress hormones to not only thrive and heal but to impact your emotions and intuition too?
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On Wellness Force Radio episode 236, doctor, clinical researcher and best-selling author of Healthy Gut, Healthy You, Dr. Michael Ruscio, returns for the fourth time to explain what the Enteric Nervous System (ENS) is and how it acts as your second brain; how one of his clients actually improved when carbs and gluten were added to his diet; and why we'll be seeing more psychologists begin to make referrals for their patients to have their gut health checked.
Discover why focusing on both mental and gut health go hand in hand.
"Slow down, do one thing at a time, and realize that to learn what your body needs, you can't do 7 things at once. Do one thing for a few weeks and then move onto the next. Learn to listen to your body and trust what it says." - @DrRuscio on @WellnessForce wellnessforce.com/236
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The good news is that almost any ailment including depression, fatigue, weight gain, autoimmunity, insomnia, and hypothyroidism can be healed. The key is not just managing the symptoms but treating the root cause: the gut. Restoring this crucial part of your overall health improves the performance of your whole body from the inside out and it's easier than you think to get started.
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| 0:00.0 | We're just going to run a series of experiments and we're going to figure out what works. |
| 0:07.0 | We're going to carry that forward and we're going to abandon what doesn't work. |
| 0:10.0 | That's really the process, right? That's really what the process is, but that's incumbent upon someone trusting their own body. |
| 0:17.5 | If you can do those two things, learn to trust your body and kind of surrender to the process and do one thing at a time you |
| 0:23.9 | improve and so I'm happy that people are now you know having more of |
| 0:28.3 | dissemination of that message. That's Dr Michael Rio, and this is episode 236 of Wellness Force Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | What's up, my friend? It's your host, Josh Trent, and welcome back to another episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness |
| 0:44.8 | as we discover the physical and emotional intelligence we need to live life well. |
| 0:49.9 | In this episode we're talking with Dr. Michael Ruchio, the Four Pete, one of the coolest and |
| 0:55.2 | most knowledgeable men that I know when it comes to the enteric nervous system, not just the |
| 1:00.5 | gut microbiome and gut health, we're going way deeper. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going literally to the bottom of the truth basement today, live from Lake Tahoe, to talk |
| 1:08.8 | about the enteric nervous system. |
| 1:11.2 | This is a fascinating part of the body which I've just stumbled upon and I'm so |
| 1:15.5 | stoked for you to learn about it too because it's called the second brain because this system |
| 1:21.2 | it actually operates separately from the autonomic nervous system. |
| 1:25.0 | You know, we talk about sympathetic and parasympathetic on the show. |
| 1:28.0 | This ENS, the enteric nervous system, this gut and brain talked to each other through nerve signals, stress hormones, but the ENS has hundreds of millions of neurons more than all the nerves in the spinal cord. It's capable of reflexes, gut feelings. You know that feeling you get when you're meeting |
| 1:46.4 | somebody and you're like, you know, I just really like that girl or I like that guy? |
| 1:51.0 | They're super cool. It's because your gut is actually giving your brain a message |
| 1:54.6 | which then makes you feel something in your chest and that's how you call it a gut feeling. But what if this, what if our gut feeling |
| 2:02.2 | could actually lead us astray? |
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