The Epigenetics of Brain Inflammation, Mood Disorders, and Strategies to Heal with Carolyn Ledowsky
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Dr. Jockers
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Why do low-carbs need so much sodium? When insulin levels drop, so does the production of the hormone aldosterone. This triggers a process that makes you LOSE sodium at a rapid rate, causing headaches, low energy, muscle cramps, and insomnia. LMNT Recharge’s low-carb energy drink powders fix the problem so you feel your best!
Today's episode is sponsored by Paleovalley Turmeric Complex. Turmeric is well known for its anti-inflammatory properties, but did you know it has also been shown to support cellular health, workout recovery, joint health, and brain function? And not all turmeric is created equal, which is why I always choose Paleovalley Turmeric Complex. Paleovalley uses whole food turmeric and adds coconut oil and black pepper to help with the absorption of turmeric by 2,000%. Visit http://paleovalley.com/and use code JOCKERS for 15% off.
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If you’ve been working hard to get fit and healthy but always find yourself getting sick for some reason, chances are you need MTHFR Support. But what is MTHFR? Our guest today, Carolyn Ledowsky, is a naturopath and Founder of MTHFR Support Australia. She’ll be giving us more in-depth insight about MTHFR and why it's a big deal, especially in treating chronic conditions, fertility issues, and other serious concerns about your health. Discover how her work can be truly beneficial both to practitioners and patients alike.
“There's a whole lot of cascades that happen when our body is inflamed, and that could be infection, gut bugs, COVID, a virus, or a bacteria. So the body goes, okay, I sense there's something going on here. I'm going to upregulate inflammatory pathway, short term only so that I can deal with this."
-Carolyn Ledowsky
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In This Episode:
- Learn about Carolyn’s motivation behind her study of the epigenetics of brain inflammation and mood disorders
- Understand how a balanced combination of folate, B12, trimethylglycine, and B6 affect homocysteine levels
- Find out the ideal range of homocysteine and the danger it poses when it gets too high
- MTHFR: what is it, and why is it a big deal?
- Discover this bug-clearing pathway that produces 2 really key things to help clear bugs and relies highly on serotonin
- What brings out one of the most detrimental effects of methylation
- Factors you need to consider when evaluating if you have enough B12
Resources:
- LMNT Recharge – https://drinklmnt.com/
-Paleovalley Turmeric Complex – Click the link for 15% off
-An Introduction to MTHFR – https://mthfrsupport.com.au/what-is-mthfr/
Connect with Carolyn Ledowsky:
- Website – https://mthfrsupport.com.au/
- LinkedIn – https://au.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-ledowsky-81422014
- YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwH3F_dC_uYK36IRvm0iK1Q
- Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mthfrsupportglobal/?utm_medium=copy_link
- Pinterest – https://www.pinterest.ph/mthfrsupportau/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Dr. Jockers functional nutrition podcast, the show designed to give you |
| 0:08.0 | science-based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural |
| 0:14.5 | medicine, and creator of Dr.jockers.com, and I'm the host of this podcast. I'm here to tell you that your body was |
| 0:22.5 | created to heal itself. And on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal |
| 0:28.4 | and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. |
| 0:43.0 | This podcast is sponsored by our friends over at Paleo Valley. We know that chronic inflammation is at the root of every single degenerative disease. And so if we're going to |
| 0:47.8 | thrive in life, we've got to do things to help encourage a healthy inflammation response |
| 0:52.8 | in our body. One of the best ways |
| 0:54.9 | we can do that is take herbs that help support inflammation and keep inflammation under control. |
| 1:00.4 | The most well-studied herb for doing that is turmeric. Tumeric inhibits the inflammatory nuclear |
| 1:06.8 | factor Kappa Beta and Stat 3 pathways. These are genetic pathways that amplify inflammation |
| 1:12.8 | in our body. And by inhibiting these, Tumeric really helps support good blood flow, joint health, |
| 1:20.0 | brain function, our ability to think sharply and quickly and have good memory, mood, and just |
| 1:25.0 | an overall good mindset. Now, when it comes to taking turmeric, |
| 1:29.6 | you know, certainly we can be putting it on our food, you know, and taking food-based |
| 1:33.3 | forms of turmeric, right? A lot of people will use the most well-studied compound, which is |
| 1:39.8 | curcumin. However, what we know is that whole food-based turmeric has nearly 300 other beneficial components than just curcumin alone. |
| 1:50.2 | And so again, curcumin is extremely powerful, but the research shows that taking a whole-food-based turmeric complex can be much more beneficial. |
| 2:00.7 | Now, the problem with turmeric is that it notoriously has low |
| 2:04.8 | bioavailability on its own and the body has a hard time absorbing it. It really needs a good |
| 2:10.7 | soluble fat to absorb it. And that's why paleo valley with their turmeric complex, they added |
| 2:16.8 | coconut oil. I mean, you think about like a curry |
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