The Hidden Connection Between Gut Health & Mental Health That Therapy and Drugs Cannot Fix

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Our global mental health crisis is growing at an exponential rate, with over half a billion people suffering from depression and anxiety; it’s time we rethink our understanding of the underlying root causes of mental health challenges.

From treating thousands of patients, I’ve learned that depression is not in your head. It’s in your body. More specifically, your gut. When your gut is unhealthy and inflamed, your brain is unhealthy and inflamed. In Functional Medicine, we know that the gut and the brain are intimately connected and that the health of one directly influences the health of the other.

In today’s Health Bites episode, we’re diving into the gut-brain connection and sharing Functional Medicine tools to support your gut health and, as a result, your mood and mental health.

In this episode, I discuss:

Our global mental health crisis (2:45)
The gut-brain connection (4:18)
The story of Marks's broken brain (5:15)
Features of the gut-brain axis (8:57)
Gut hormones that send signals to your brain (10:06)
Role of the gut microbiota in mood and mental health (12:24)
How stress negatively impacts our gut microbiome (20:14)
The link between leaky gut and poor mental health (21:41)
The Functional Medicine approach to fixing the gut (25:56)
The 5R Program for fixing your gut health (30:09)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, over the last 30 years, I've learned that depression is mostly not in your head.
0:07.2	It's in your body. When your gut is unhealthy, your brain is unhealthy.
0:10.8	Now conventional medicine views these two things as completely separate
0:14.8	and unrelated. Functional medicine, we know the gut and the brain are intimately connected and
0:19.0	that the health of one directly impacts the other.
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