How Butyrate Supports Gut, Cell & Brain Function – Jessica Kane Berman : 982
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™… you’ll learn how butyrate and phospholipids keep your gut, cells and brain performing at their best. You’ll find out how your mucosal barrier defends against pathogens in your gut microbiome. You’ll also learn about discoveries in the field of cell membrane medicine. This focus determines how your body functions now and also how you age.
Jessica Kane Berman joins the show to share new information and interesting science about cellular health from the perspective of BodyBio, the company founded by her grandfather, Ed Kane, an inventor, health explorer and early biohacker. He went looking for answers to his own health issues in the 1980s and got deep into the science of fatty acid research and cell membrane medicine through blood testing.
BodyBio sticks to a very specific group of products, most notably butyrate and a phospholipid complex of phosphatidylcholine. Jess explains how true liposomal phosphatidylcholine and phospholipids get through to the cells to help rebuild that membrane.
Here’s a few good things butyrate does in your gut:
- Helps maintain the thickness of the mucosal barrier—keeps the good in and the bad out
- Helps the expression of tight junctions and strengthens the gut wall
- Expresses MUC2: this produces mucus, which thickens your mucous lining
- Regulates T-Cells and helps lower cytokine release
- Increases microbiome diversity
- Anti-inflammatory properties help improve intestinal barrier function and mucosal immunity
Butyrate goes way beyond the gut to influence bone mass and density, asthma and allergies, histamine intolerance, body detoxification, inflammatory brain pathways, and mitochondrial function. Butyrate also can alter gene expression, protect against cancer, and regulate the body’s immune system.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, bulletproof radio. |
| 0:11.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.2 | Today we're going to talk about your gut, and you can say, |
| 0:18.7 | good God, how much are you going to talk about God, Dave? |
| 0:22.8 | And the reality is that there's at least as many bacteria |
| 0:27.3 | in your gut, if your gut's working right, |
| 0:29.0 | as there are cells in your body, and we know the least about the gut. |
| 0:33.0 | So I'll probably keep talking about it for a while, |
| 0:35.6 | because it's one of the big areas of performance enhancement |
| 0:39.0 | that you can have. |
| 0:39.8 | You want to live longer, get better control of the mouth, |
| 0:43.0 | the gut, the whole GI tract. |
| 0:45.4 | The definition of biohacking is change the environment around you |
| 0:49.2 | and inside of you so you have full control of your own biology. |
| 0:52.9 | The reality is that the stuff in your gut is talking directly |
| 0:55.8 | to your mitochondria and your cells via chemical, |
| 0:59.2 | even via light mechanisms, and probably some stuff |
| 1:01.8 | we don't even understand. |
| 1:03.3 | So if you get control of that, you're gaining control |
| 1:05.9 | of your own biological functions, which is kind of cool. |
| 1:09.2 | Now, our guest today is Jess Berman, |
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