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Welcome everyone, this is Dr. Mercola helping to take control of your health and today we're joined by Dr. Scott Shearer who is going to enlighten us about a variety of different topics including Gabba,

Gabba I mean of butyric acid,

which is a really great topic,

especially if you struggle with sleep and a variety of other disorders.

It's quite converse to serotonin.

It's almost like the direct opposite.

So what you need is not, seritone is what you don't need. So welcome and thank you for joining it today.

Thanks Joe for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, Gabba is is the unsung

neurotransmitter. It's the one that does get a lot of press, the fancy ones like

serotonin and dopamine and an urban effort and get all the, get all the press, get all the news, everybody cares about them but they don't realize that

Gaba is 20% of the brain's neurotransmission and when you combine glutamate which is

actually its opposite in the sense of glutamate being the excitatory neurotransmitter and the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, and Gaba being the main inhibitory neurotransmitter.

Those two are always working in conjunction and in balance and in fact

it's this excitatory transmitter glutamate that actually turns into Gaba into the brain in the brain.

Interesting so into the brain, in the brain. Interesting, so appreciate that background. So unfortunately I neglected to mention your history and your background.

So why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, your medical

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