Insidious Inflammation & How To Fight It – Maggie Berghoff : 1131
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Inflammation is at the root of everything. More inflammation means less energy and a higher risk of every disease. Today, we’re digging into exactly why inflammation is so insidious with functional medicine nurse practitioner Maggie Berghoff.
Maggie is a USA Today National Best-Selling author of the book Eat to Treat: Your Three-Step Plan To Reduce Inflammation, Detoxify Your Life, And Heal Your Body. She is also the founder of wellness supplement and non-toxic home line DETOXDaily.
In this episode, we talk all about inflammation—what causes it, how it hurts us, and how to combat it. We explore all the different types of inflammation, including physiological vs. psychological inflammation– and dig into how inflammation intersects with hormone health, thyroid function, and metabolic syndrome.
Maggie also shares her perspective about shedding shame around eating, and why perfectionism can be even more toxic than actually toxic foods. Plus, I share a lot of horrifying (but medically useful) information about urine. You’ll be equally intrigued and grossed out.
(00:01:29) The Ills of Inflammation
(00:07:23) Physiological vs. Psychological Inflammation
(00:15:00) 3 Things That Cause Inflammation
(00:25:26) Are We More Inflamed Now Than Ever?
(00:27:19) Where Do You Start Combating Inflammation?
(00:30:09) What Is Your Inflammation Type?
(00:35:50) When Your Hormones Are in Havoc
(00:46:58) Metabolic Syndrome’s Role in Inflammation
(00:49:22) The Nightmare of Poor Sleep
(00:55:18) Shedding Shame Around Food
(01:02:20) Why Not Just Take Aspirin?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. Hi. Asprey. Our guest today has written a book called Eat to Treat and it's all about |
| 0:27.5 | inflammation. If you followed my work for the last 10 or so years, |
| 0:32.1 | inflammation is at the root of everything. |
| 0:35.5 | Because every day your cells take 30 pounds of air |
| 0:39.3 | and some food and they combine them to make something. |
| 0:42.8 | And they can make electricity or heat your hormones |
| 0:44.9 | or inflammation. |
| 0:46.4 | And if they're making inflammation, |
| 0:47.4 | it means you have less energy, |
| 0:48.6 | then it means your risk of every disease goes up. |
| 0:51.8 | So if you can fix your food or your environment to have less |
| 0:54.4 | inflammation you will automatically have more energy and less muffin top. So our |
| 1:01.8 | guests is a renowned functional medicine nurse practitioner. |
| 1:06.3 | She's been a USA Today best-selling author |
| 1:08.9 | and it's done a lot of work around the field. |
| 1:10.3 | So I want to pick her brain today |
| 1:12.1 | on what's going on with inflammation. |
| 1:14.0 | Maggie, welcome to the show. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm excited to be here and talk about a topic that is, like you said, just so important to all of your |
| 1:22.3 | health and wellness goals. |
| 1:25.3 | How do you know? |
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